Faucets were a big thing back in the day. You can’t really say they were a waste of time because you could actually accumulate a decent amount of Bitcoin. So, OP, hats off to you for giving away Bitcoin as you’ve helped someone and the community, and that’s commendable. As for me, I’ll admit, I was too greedy back then. I ended up losing more than 20 Bitcoins to gambling. Some of the ones I managed to cash out, I didn’t hold onto for the long term, even though I always preached about holding. Sometimes, I couldn’t even follow my own advice and ended up betraying myself.
If you look back at it now, faucets were not a waste of time but at that time, it also didn't feel very rewarding. I claimed a lot on faucets also (mainly DOGE) and accumulated a couple of thousands of it. Most of them I lost trying to double it on obscure sites and most I cashed it when in reached 0.001$ lol. Anyway, it is crazy to think that in the early days you could claim 5 BTC which is now worth 500,000$.