Best Ways To Spend Your Free Time Using Internet
These days when we usually want to spend our free time, we start using the internet. We read the news, do shopping or scroll the newsfeed in social media networks, play kind of candy crush games and kill the time. But you know, there are several other things which you can do using the internet in your free time. This time will be more productive for your daily lifestyle. You can do volunteer something for the online world and make yourself useful.
Edit Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the better place where one finds everything. This is the way we collect knowledge and start doing certain things. So, you can edit the Wiki and be helpful for others.Well, you start grabbing knowledge from Wikis. In addition to this, you can add to it. Wikipedias can be edited by anyone. You don’t even need to register your details to edit it.
There’s Edit option available in every web page of Wikipedia. You can click on it and start editing the page. If you are using an app on your phone, you can edit it by clicking on the pen icon. You can fix the grammatical and spelling errors. You can add your points which you experienced and which are factful. Anyhow, you need to link to verifiable sources wherever it is possible.
Make sure you provide factful information while editing the Wikipedia. Well, if the information provided by you seems to be wrong, the other editors can re-edit it without your permission. You can check those changes again by signing up for an account.
Beta test software
Before companies release their softwares to market, they will give it to beta software testers. These early adopters can fix the technical issues and keep an eye on bugs which will be then reported to developers to fix them. Don’t worry. You need not be techy or don’t need to have any coding knowledge to deal with these issues. You can support to standardise the software with your simple efforts.You can volunteer to beta tests free and open-source programs like Mozilla Firefox or LibreOffice by leaving a feedback. Mozilla Firefox, the web browser gives an opportunity for the netizen to leave a feedback using its online reporting tool. The open-source office suit LibreOffice gives the same opportunity for the user with bug-reporting platform Bugzilla. You can report any issues using them.
For example, Mozilla Firefox will allow volunteers to post online feedbacks using the online reporting tool. Likewise, LibreOffice will allow users to code, develop and file everything for free. For your volunteer work, you will be rewarded with early access to new features
Review your past purchases
Reviewing the products which you’ve purchased is the best way to help other people. You can leave a review a product or a location or a restro which you’ve experienced previously. You can add if they are good or gave you a miserable experience. But keep in mind that you are being a source for someone who is thinking whether to spend or not to spend their money on a product, place, food etc. Perhaps, your reviews will help the sellers also to build their audiences and to overcome the drawbacks.Make sure you write the reviews honestly and give an accurate rating. Be keen on what you are telling other audiences. Write about a product or a gadget, or about a restaurant and its prices, taste etc. When you are posting some negative reviews, add why you feel so in a detail. You can also add photos if the review site is allowing you to.
Now if you are not able to think of an item which you’ve purchased long back, then visit your purchase history on an online shopping site like Amazon, Sign into your account, then click the Account& Lists link which is available in the toolbar at the top of the page, then go to Your Orders to see which you’ve recently purchased. You’ll find Write a product review option beside every item you’ve purchased.
Promote good causes
Promoting good causes to help build good society is a very good task which you can take up in your free time. You can promote social organizations which are working for good causes in social media. You can also make a practice of promoting viral challenges say the Ice Bucket Challenge which had become the most viral stunt in social media and it has led to a great cause for the society.You can even search for good charities, communities, NGOs and start following them on social media and help them in raising funds, support them in their upcoming events etc.. You can share and give a push to their social ideas, review their pages, post comments to let others know about them.
But remember, you shouldn’t go overboard with your friends and family may ignore your posts on social media platforms.
Contribute to Google Maps
The gigantic Google has lots of things in it. You can add some information to it in its Google Maps and make the work easier for others. You can submit photos, reviews of places to help strangers who are visiting or planning to visit a particular place. You can also answer frequent questions about the particular place and help others.Go to Google Maps, (via a website, Android, iOS) and it asks you few questions and you can select few actions and answer those questions which you’ve experienced them previously. You can also select Suggest an edit and change or add the address of the place, post reviews and rate the places and add photos by clicking on the camera icon and then submit them.
If you want to contribute to Google Maps, just sign up to be a Local Guide for Google and keep posting your views and earn points for your contributions.
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