I heard about it in the previous spike in price to $1000, The media was all over the story and how it quadrupled in value multiple times, so I followed and joined MTgox and bought few bitcents, Media can be effective specially for a currency like bitcoin.

I've been using BTC for around 4 months now and used 1 PC wallet and 4 browser wallets, Both btc.com and blockchain.info are top as online wallets and I would take BC.Info though, since you can restore all your Private keys through the recovery phrase.
Electrum "my only PC wallet" is better than both though IMO, and don't worry about syncing, it only took 1 hours or so.