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What do you get out of the internet (besides porn)?

13-10-2010 06:17PM

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liah

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The internet has an awful lot of information and cool stuff to be found, what do you get out of the internet? Do you contribute to websites? Have blogs on your RSS? Even know what an RSS feed is?

I get an awful lot out of the internet-- learning languages for free on Livemocha, finding and getting feedback about art on Deviantart, having basically all music ever at my fingertips for free with Last.fm + Chrome, keep connected with friends on Facebook, game on Kongregate and through Steam, keep updated on news with Digg and Reddit, spend hours reading random articles on Wikipedia, free calls to the US and Canada (landlines) in Gmail, post and contribute on/for various websites, etc.

Other people I know are content with facebook, email, youtube and porn.

So what do you get out of it? Do you make the best of the 'net?

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#2 13-10-2010 06:19PM

Links234

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shopping!

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#3 13-10-2010 06:19PM

Kimono-Girl

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information!!! :cool:

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#4 13-10-2010 06:20PM

liah

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Oh, and in before "there's more to the internet than porn?" paired with the ":eek:" smiley.

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#5 13-10-2010 06:21PM

candy-gal1

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Boards, social networking, watching movies-youtubeing.

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#6 13-10-2010 06:21PM

neilthefunkeone

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Proving people wrong....

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#7 13-10-2010 06:22PM

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liah wrote: »

Other people I know are content with facebook, email, youtube and porn.

Add boards to that and thats me about summed up.

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#8 13-10-2010 06:22PM

RoyalMarine

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liah, they have porn on the internet now?

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#9 13-10-2010 06:22PM

google faps

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FBI warnings

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#10 13-10-2010 06:23PM

OutlawPete

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I use it for most media now.

Not just movies but I also watch most of my TV online now too.

BBC iPlayer, 4OD, RTE Player etc.

I use YouTube and Grooveshark for music..

Watch Horse Racing online and bet online too of course.

Rarely buy newspapers these days, so also use it as news source.

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#11 13-10-2010 06:25PM

Pauleta

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Catch up on tv or get tv programmes earlier
Facebook how i dont have to socialise
online gaming
Free sport and music
sports results

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#12 13-10-2010 06:27PM

liah

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I like the fact that with the internet one would literally never have to leave the house if they wanted to. You can get online jobs, online degrees, learn languages for free, order groceries and other shopping items online, pay your bills online, do your banking online, download any media you want to consume, view the entire world through images and Google maps, find any information you want, interact with millions of people.

It's actually kind of scary how all-consuming it has the potential to be. It's an Agoraphobic's dream. :pac:

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#13 13-10-2010 06:35PM

Mr Benevolent

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Porn.

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#14 13-10-2010 06:38PM

Aldebaran

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Funny pictures of cats.

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#15 13-10-2010 06:39PM

scientific1982

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Knowledge.
Poker.
Entertainment.
Free stuff.

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#16 13-10-2010 06:39PM

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This, tv and films, eBay and hundreds of wasted hours

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#17 13-10-2010 06:41PM

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Well i live abroad so i mostly use it for irish news and for keeping in touch with family and freind's .

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#18 13-10-2010 06:49PM

St._Andalou

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Well someone may as well post it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc

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#19 13-10-2010 06:50PM

dvpower

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liah wrote: »

Do you contribute to websites?

No.

D'oh.

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#20 13-10-2010 06:52PM

poppyvalley

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I just love utube. Instant gratification (when it comes to choice of music)

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#21 13-10-2010 06:53PM

Sanjuro

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Movie news.
Regular news.
Sci-Fi news.
Downloading and watching movies and television shows.
Shopping.
Have two blogs, but haven't updated them in a while (see sig).
Transfer files to and from work.
Research.
Lots and lots of gaming.
Oh, and one other thing... what is it again... oh yeah. Porn.

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#22 13-10-2010 06:56PM

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A realisation that I'm not the only idiot on the planet.

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#23 13-10-2010 06:57PM

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poppyvalley wrote: »

I just love utube. Instant gratification (when it comes to choice of music)

Really?

A lot of the stuff I listen to I cant find on youtube, may have to upload some of it!

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#24 13-10-2010 06:57PM

Asphyxia

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- Shopping
- Watching TV/Music/Make-up and Beauty Tutorials (4OD, BBC iplayer, Youtube)
- Getting music
- Facebook
- A good old rant on forums (Boards, SomethingAwful)
- News and information (Google, Wikipedia, Sparknotes)
- Gossip (Perez Hilton, TMZ)
- Posting on my blog (Tumblr)
- Posting my Art (DeviantArt)

So much more stuff I love the internet

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#25 13-10-2010 07:02PM

MJ23

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donedeal.ie
amazon.com
nba.com
wrc.com
adverts.ie
ebay.ie
xhamster.com
tube8.com
paypal.com
newstalk.ie
youtube.com

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#26 13-10-2010 07:16PM

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Homework

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#27 13-10-2010 07:19PM

El Horseboxo

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Rape Paddy Power.

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#28 13-10-2010 07:21PM

Dante

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Besides porn? Absolutely nothing, I'm not gonna lie...

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#29 13-10-2010 08:26PM

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Saving money by learning how to do things myself. Latest example, my laptop would boot up but the screen stayed blank. A quick google and a youtube instructional video later and the problem was fixed by ordering an €4 ribbon cable, rather than by shipping it back to HP and paying €200 for the privilege.

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#30 13-10-2010 08:31PM

Celly Smunt

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i love how i win a lot of lottery's from things i havent even entered! like today i got an e-mail which said i have one $100,000,000 dollars! then all i had to do was give my bank details so they can put the money in,i have finally dodged the recession with my win

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#31 13-10-2010 08:45PM

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http://www.geebag.com/word/

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