I will not acknowledge the nuances in how an individual may want to use the internet. The internet is infinity and nothing but until now scientists have never understood where you are supposed to stand. You want to hear the music. You want to hear every piece of the music. But never incorrectly. You must point the speakers in the right direction and spread them out the correct distance and sit in the right spot.
People on the internet love to talk about "no more third spaces". Your third space is the internet. Everything points to the hubs so everyone goes to them. But they are the end of the road. You will never discover anything except for a quest that sends you into the dark. Stop waiting for the quest to be given to you. Skip the middle man he is fat and gross.
HOW DO YOU USE THE INTERNET CORRECTLY?
Figure out your safe spaces. The sites between discovery and the mainland. A room where you can recuperate, get some sleep, and make something cool without needing to plug in. Your safe space must be unexplored [see chart]. My recommendation is watchavideo.net but it is built for me. Build your own. It does not have to be youtube videos. It can be paintings or books, pictures of your family, blue things, green things, engineering marvels, optical illusions, sounds, a live video of a camera pointing at you from the corner of the room.
There is no tech advancement that makes the site better. You are building a masquerade of an algorithm. Everything you view has been placed. You are changing pixels on your screen like you would your bed and your dresser. If your online experience seats you in reality then you will return faster while not being as drained by the 5G tower next to you.
I think videos are the most exciting. When you watch videos that random people made and you are looking in the right places you see cinema that equals whatever Orson Welles was doing 200 years ago. Nothing great is being made anymore is bogus. There is so much greatness that you are accustomed to it. Everyone is a hipster and that is awesome. Everyone thinks more differently than ever and that is beautiful. If you don’t understand then turn on your computer, give it some memories and start collaging moving pictures and sound. Listen to music. If you need something you can hop on the internet and find it. Once the browser is open you know where you are headed, a mentality you should always have when using the internet. If you are in a place it should be intentional and the next thing you see should be predictably life changing. There should never be a click or a scroll that does not lead somewhere interesting.
GETTING STARTED
Go to rateyourmusic.com and find your favorite album. Click on the genre and sort by new or old or popular and find a few albums that you judge by the cover. Find songs you like and then go to youtube. To recap, you found this article which has less than 10 readers, you went directly to a website and searched your favorite album, you were "recommended" an album you should like, and now you are on youtube with a clear objective.
Search [artist name] [song name] [live OR music video]. Find a video with less than 80,000 views and watch it. (You do not have to watch the whole thing but if you choose not to know why you chose not to. Repeat the process a few times meditatively). Focus solely on the internet. A lot of times internet guilt is from not accepting that you have chosen it as your present activity. If you want to use the internet then use it but learn to think while using it. If it is truly your one activity then you should understand what you are meant to be doing after a few videos.
FINAL STEP
Go do something.
