What is the Purpose of the Internet?

The Internet has a purpose. It is a machine—a tool for making things.

You can use the Internet:

  • to make art
  • to make fun
  • to make money
  • to make change
  • to make hurt and pain.

You can be used by the Internet. You can let it:

  • make you distracted (wasting your time and focus)
  • make you incriminated (incognito windows notwithstanding, there is a browser history)
  • make you dissatisfied and unhappy (others’ lives always look better on Instagram).

The Internet has a purpose, and you get to decide what that purpose is.