Faucets are good method to get the first few coins but in the long run its a waste of time.
We all agree that faucets are good for beginning, and I started like that as well, my first steps was faucets and free roll poker tournaments. It`s a fact that most of us earn good from signature campaigns, but as I stated several times trick is to multiply that amount later.
Buying bitcoins is not possible for everyone here, I prefer to earn and to make more from that, then to buy and wait for the price to increase. I`m bad in trading, and I always miss perfect moment for buying/selling, and from that trading I lost much more then I won.