internet helps society?

Let's face it, there are a lot of websites (way too many) that are totally pointless yet many users are hooked/addicted to it. Most of these pointless websites are user generated like TFLN, urbandictionary, stumbleupon, postsecrets, fml, youtube just to name a few. Although there are many of these useless websites that cure boredom, there are also many websites that are designed to help or better this society or for me at least. Websites that help me are yahoo.com (e-mail), hotschedules.com (work), bankofamerica.com (finance), various rutgers websites (school), weather.com (weather), mapquest.com (directions), and many more.