From which Internet based service have you benefited the most ?

[james_bond]

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Youtube?

 

From which Internet based service have you benefited the most ?

 

My vote goes to Youtube.

 

I have cancelled my Digital Cable subscription & at the moment I use Youtube to watch all kinds of content including the very same news channels which I used to watch using Digital Cable.

 

Thank God Youtube exists.

[Sarra]

Gonna hide this, it could trigger people, but it's a positive thing. I just know that the 's' word (rhymes with uh mooicide?) can trigger all on it's own...

 

Spoiler

I used a suicide prevention chat service. It really helped me, even though at that time, it didn't feel like it right away. I also volunteered with a similar service a few years later, and that also helped me.

Besides that, uh... IRC? That got me some pretty cool friends... And Craigslist. I got my current job there.

[Andreas Lilja]

Wikipedia. 

[Kilrah]

Going for Youtube as well. Haven't watched TV or other forms of "mainstream media" for years but a couple hours of YT every day.

[Arika]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

Going for Youtube as well. Haven't watched TV or other forms of "mainstream media" for years but a couple hours of YT every day.

youtube is my new background music.

[RTX 3090]

I would say YouTube. Lot's of educational videos, and a very very large selection on content

[divito]

Like persistent internet service? I'd say Youtube holds the biggest "benefit" as it has incredibly diverse content, both entertaining and educational.

Outside of that, Plex isn't wholly an internet service but that's another one that's quite high for benefits. And I suppose most people have benefited from file-sharing; whether Napster, Kazaa, Morpheus, Limewire -> the creation of BitTorrent.

[TetraSky]

Google.

Of course having access to humanity's expensive wealth of knowledge at any time, is the thing that benefitted me the most over the years.

From looking up information to write in a dissertation, to simply checking if bumblebees can sting... Google, is great.

Then they bought Youtube and here we are today.

[TempestCatto]

the pirate bay

 

 

[straight_stewie]

The Domain Name System.

[piratemonkey]

I got a couple. News sites (both traditional [reuters, ap are ones I usually go for] and more tech focused ones [anandtech, gn, etc.]), youtube (same reasons echoed here already), Discord (I've met awesome people on there, and am in awesome communities too). I'd even go as far as to say this forum. I've met great people here, and have found a sort of online purpose. It's a community I'm glad to fit in.

[Kilrah]

10 hours ago, Arika S said:

youtube is my new background music.

Technically same here since Google Play Music is dead and it's Youtube Music now 

[unsorted]

On 12/25/2020 at 6:35 PM, james_bond said:

Thank God Youtube exists.

YouTube is my vote too. Despite the heavy censorship and ownership by Google, a filthy State Mafia spyware vendor.

 

[charlie_root]

I'll say both YouTube and podcasts for the same reason: long form, unedited discussion. It has been incredibly edifying to listen to serious psychological, philosophical, and theological discussions that aren't forced to be reduced to caricatures due to imposed time limits from traditional TV.

 

TV is like listening to a couple of pots banging together in comparison. The worst example of this was a political debate segment I saw a few years ago with 5 participants, and they allotted probably no more than 5 minutes for the entire segment. Well, what kind of debate can you actually expect to have when each person has about 1 minute to not only rebut someone else's argument, but present their own side as well? It predictably devolved into shouting, straw men, and pointlessness. It's no surprise that TV has become more and more absurd. You have such a limited time to make your point AND keep the viewer's attention, that you have to adopt over simplified, extremist caricatures of arguments in order to actually say anything at all. 

 

YouTube and podcasts allow for different sides to actually develop their point of view intelligently and seriously contend or engage with the other side. And for non-debate conversations, they allow for something of interest to actually be discussed instead of just hinted at. Even better, they can be listened to at any time, while being paused and replayed as desired. Lastly, they are often unedited, so that the full picture can be seen instead of the editor's idea.

[Grabhanem]

Knowledge wise? Wikipedia or Github. Socially? Twitch or Discord. In terms of most daily use? Youtube.

[Intergalacticbits]

For entertainment I'd say youtube for daily goofing and itunes for everything else so far.

I love buying just what I want to watch and not having to choose from a list that somebody else gives me.

There are all these different services everyone wants you to subscribe too but I think the real future of entertainment is just subscribing to the shows alone not the services.

Freedom in all things entertainment is the natural evolution I suspect and hope.

Otherwise it is just a repeat of what we've already had and that will get boring fast.

 

I also like this forum.

I'm still exploring the internet choices so I'm hoping I'll eventually find more that I like.

I'm a slow mover on this internet service stuff lol.