So are you like everyone else?  Or are your web viewing patterns different?  An interesting assortment of websites rank among the top viewed websites on the internet today, with some embedded, tectonic shifts in patterns.

Still dominated by a slightly affluent, educated crowd, the top-viewed sites are seeing a strong infiltration of youth-based viewers and social networkers with education levels all over the map.   

In daily viewership, standard news sites appear to fall behind more organic, news-about-me facebook and myspace models. 

General information sources are clearly the top internet sites, which may stand to reason for an "information highway."  But clear lanes on this highway are also populated with personal profilers trying to keep up with each other in a busy world where even a phone call is a big investment. 

After that, the next big theme seems to be bargain shopping, and it may not surprise some to find that WalMart dominates in the virtual big box world as well as in the physical.    Ebay and Amazon were expected finds on this top hits list.

News gets a nod -- in the forms of MSN and CNN and Wikipedia stands as testimony to the idea that we are leaning towards collective knowledge building versus expert knowledge sharing.

Here's the list, with sites, monthly US hits and a short overview of the audience, according to the independent research organization called Quantcast. 

1 google.com 141M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a more affluent, more educated audience.

2 yahoo.com 122M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more educated crowd.

3 live.com 114M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more educated crowd.

4 msn.com 100M+ U.S. monthly people. The site caters to a adult, more educated audience.

5 facebook.com 87M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more affluent, teen and young adult, very slightly female biased following.

6  youtube.com 82M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more youthful following.

7 microsoft.com 80M+ U.S. monthly people. The site is popular among a skewing older, slightly male slanted following.

8 wikipedia.org 73M+ U.S. monthly people. The site caters to a more educated, younger, slightly male slanted audience.

9 myspace.com 64M+ U.S. monthly people. The site is popular among a slightly female slanted, teen and young adult audience.

10 ebay.com 60M+ U.S. monthly people. The site is popular among a more affluent, slightly male slanted audience. 11 aol.com 58M+ U.S. monthly people. The site caters to a very slightly female biased, younger crowd.

12 ask.com 53M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a slightly more female than male audience.

13 craigslist.org 50M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a very slightly male biased, fairly wealthy audience.

14 blogspot.com 49M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a very slightly male biased, more educated audience.

15 about.com 44M+ U.S. monthly people. The site is popular among a very slightly female biased audience.

16 answers.com 43M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more youthful, more educated following.

17 amazon.com 42M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more educated following.

18 mapquest.com 42M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more educated, slightly female slanted, adult, more affluent crowd.

19 windows.com 32M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a skewing older following.

20 adobe.com 30M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a slightly female slanted, skewing older audience.

21 photobucket.com 30M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a slightly more female than male, teen audience.

22 wordpress.com 29M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more educated following.

23 go.com 27M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a more affluent group.

24 paypal.com 26M+ U.S. monthly people. The site appeals to a very slightly male biased, more affluent crowd.

25 walmart.com 25M+ U.S. monthly people. The site caters to a very slightly female biased audience.

26 cnn.com 23M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a more educated, rather male, fairly wealthy audience.

27 twitter.com 23M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a young adult, slightly more female than male audience.

28 reference.com 22M+ U.S. monthly people. The site caters to a teen group.

29 imdb.com 22M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a slightly more male than female audience.