Does anyone do anything productive with the internet?

It helps with writing, art, (research), bill paying, shopping....
I always have good intentions to do something productive, but I get distracted easily. :) Let's not forget YouTubeInternetisforporn

sometimes I do nothing but here I find people who I actually care for, is weird, I think
anyway, also tutorials for whatever I need to do
improve my english skills, I hate going to english classes
and procastinate but that's not productive

As a medical student i use the internet to learn. For me, google is much faster at finding answers to my questions then i do searching my textbooks...

thanks to inet I am learning a lot of english vocabulary, so I think it is something productive, is it?

Wikipedia is pretty cool. I've learned lots of stuff from there. Hopefully all of it is true and not trolls posting lies.

Of course. I do my banking online, file my taxes, research various stuff before buying, find solutions to problems I'm having or how-to for thing I need to do. Plus, being a software developer, the Internet is an invaluable resource when you get stumped on a problem because someone else is bound to have experienced the same issue before you and it's usually more effective to do a quick Google search and look at other people's solutions to the problem instead of banging your head on the desk trying to figure out your way out of some messy piece of code.

I post reviews on the interwebz, but since I dont get any money for it, it doesnt count as productive

Sometimes I translate stuff for webpages, blogs and that kind of things for games. Im also learning how write better reviews and stories and Im learning how to draw better

But again, as I dont get any physical or digital money for any of this things, its not anything productive.

So the answer is NO, I dont do productive stuff in the internet

I'm productively watching cat pictures.

Lately I've been doing research on things I like, and downloaded some encyclopediae in PDF/epub format.

I've also been trying to help people out.

Improve my hand-eye coordination, while at the same time destroying my eyesight.

Lots of stuff for work
Classes whenever I can afford them and general research when I can't.
E-mail saves me a crap load on stamps ... for all you kids there was once a time when people used writing instruments on paper and sent said paper to people via a service called post. It's like a non-digital version of e-mail.

Now let me tell you brats about this thing called "Carbon Paper" LOL

Banking, shopping and looking up things that I once used to look up in books ... like recipes.

Aside from downloading porn ?
Not really.

Well. a lot actually.

You can do something productive on the internet! What crazy things people can come up with.

i give out random desura keys :Why So Evil 2: Dystopia X4P1D-14MJC-H6892-URKG9-9463C

learn stuff, lately learnning japanese... but mostly wank.

In terms of actual "work," I have various classes, scheduling, figuring out stuff, emails, that's productive.

Research is productive.

Questionably productive is talking to various people or just reading up on things, other people's stories, advice from people on various forums, news, etc.

And there's unproductive stuff like this place, or porn, or getting into arguments with random strangers on the internet about stupid shit, or vidyagaems.