How To Use The Internet

By Lev Novak

Welcome to the internet, bud.

Chances are you’ve been. But if, inexplicably, you came to uCribs as your first and only website, congratulations! You did it! You chose correctly.

The internet is a carnival of options, a buffet of universes accessible at the click of a mouse. So what do you do with it?

Here are some tips and tricks.

1. Use Your Imagination

The internet has what you need or want. Just be creative.

Put words to your desire. Do you wish you ate healthier? The internet can direct you to healthy restaurants, healthy recipes, directions to produce specialty stores and even coupons for those same stores. Ta dah! From a vague, unspecified desire the internet comes through for you. Just use your imagination and put words and steps to it.

With a little imagination and a little effort, you can find support from the internet in any direction you want to go yourself. All you have to have is the follow-through to search and use what you’ve found.

The internet is a tool, and you are a master tool-user, or something. I don’t know. I need a word here, and I probably should have bookmarked an online dictionary or any other…

2. Specialty Tools

…specialty tools.

Some things are useful for everyone: Google, email, Facebook, and the like. But some things are more relevant for other people depending on their passions and personalities. But some sites are more relevant for specific people. Are you a rapper? A rhyming dictionary is a useful bookmark to double check things and ideas. Are you a traveler? A site full of tips and travel deals makes more sense for you than it does for me.

When you live a specialty life, you need specialty tools. And the internet is large and wide enough to have everything in it: pick out, on its edges, the best parts for you.

3. Do Not Let It Use You

Whatever your weakness is- streaming Netflix, tunneling into social media or something else- don’t let the internet control you or devour your time.

The internet is a useful tool, but it can be addictive. Just think of how often you check your phones out with friends. Screens can impose themselves in your life easily.

That’s not a moral statement or a “the future is bad” type speech. But it is something to be aware of when you’re on your laptop. Sometimes, the best way to use the internet is to take a break from it.

4. Appreciate It

The internet is, essentially, a magic pool of knowledge, people, and entertainment that can be accessed immediately. It’s an external brain: if you need to know who was the vice president in 1923, the internet can tell you. If you need a recipe, or directions to a bar, or help spelling the word “recipe,” the internet can help you out.

It’s pretty amazing. You may as well appreciate it for the magic thing it is. At the very least, that attitude will make your internet bill a little more forgivable when push comes to shove.

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