Best place on the internet

I’m always quite cynical about people on the internet. Filled with trolls, spammers, scammers etc

But underneath all that lives a community that I believe makes our world a better place to live in…

…and that is www.reddit.com

Okay, a lot of you might be thinking “pfft, just another community that posts useless crap on the internet to gain “lulz” where the majority of people are males under 40 living in their mother’s basement”. I’m sure that statement has some sort of merit but it doesn’t mean they’re all bad people.

Reddit inspires user driven projects. E.g. www.imgur.com was designed for digg/reddit (digg didn’t appreciate it but it took reddit by storm). The guy who made is losing HEAPS of money each month, but he does it anyway, and with the support of reddit I think he might actually be making a profit now.

A more recent development (not that imgur.com isn’t recent) is reddit secret santa. A user thought that getting reddit to do secret santa would be a pretty good idea and managed to generate enough support!

Today I received a package in the mail.

I honestly did not expect to get anything from Secret Santa, but what do you know, some guy in the states spent $50 bucks to get these marvelous things delivered to me.

People even ask for personal advice on reddit. I mean sure, getting feedback from untrained professionals is probably a bad idea especially when the topic is…say suicide, but I’m sure most people feel better after reading some of the feedback.

Here is one very good (or bad) example.

For those who don’t visit reddit, give it a go, subscribe to their rss feed. Most of the time it’ll make you seriously LOL but other times it might actually touch you.