The 7 Happiest Places on the Internet
The internet can be a wonderful place, in fact, most of my friends live there. Yet, it can also be a place full of trolls, hatred, and unhappiness, especially for a sensitive person like me. Before I unfollowed, unliked, and unfriended the things that brought me down there were many times when a perfectly good mood was ruined by the internet.
You log on first thing in the morning and where’s the first place you go? Maybe you check your email, the news, Facebook, or catch up on the latest celeb gossip. I don’t judge, but I have a question?
Does your internet ritual make you happy?
If the answer is ‘no’ or ‘not really’ then I have just the thing for you. Here’s a list of my favorite happy-inducing websites. Perfect for the every day or those days that are full of ‘the suck’.
If you fall into the habit of opening the same few websites and mindlessly scrolling, allow me to mix up your routine with a few places to add a bit of brightness to your day.
Happiest Places on the Internet
1. Bored Panda
2. Do Nothing For Two Minutes
Are you in desperate need of a little break? Do Nothing For Two Minutes challenges you to practice being in the moment, just for two minutes. No touching your keyboard or mouse, no browsing the ‘net. Just a delicious moment of being. I challenge you to visit once a day, close your eyes, and enjoy.
3. The Nicest Place On the Internet
Cute videos of strangers giving you hugs, because sometimes you need ’em. Feel the universal love. Know that there are people out there who recorded those videos just for someone like you who needs them. People are pretty wonderful.
4. The Quiet Place Project
This is another great place for bad days with a few different uses. The Quiet Place lets you practice mindfulness and being in the moment. The Thoughts Room allows you to type out your bad feelings and explodes them into stars. The Dawn Room is where strangers leave positive messages for each other. It makes a bad day better.
5. Today’s Good News
Sometimes you just need to hear the good news going on in the world. Lots of inspiring and heart-warming stories.
6. Calm
If you have a difficult relationship with meditation then Calm will help you out. It’s seriously one of my favorite websites. They have beautiful videos of waves, clouds, snow, stars, along with soothing music. You can set timers for meditation or use one of their guided meditations that will lead you through relaxing your body and calming your mind.
7. Rainy Mood
Sometimes you’ve just got to lay on the couch with a cuddly blanket and listen to the rain falling. That moment of imagining myself in the middle of the storm while I’m all safe and warm always makes me happy.
You can, of course, follow me on Facebook or Pinterest. I try to be inspiring and happy-inducing!
What are your favorite online happy places?
Great list. some I have heard of and a couple I can’t wait to look into. The amazing thing is a couple of days ago I was trying to remember an app I had with rain sounds and I just couldn’t. Then this post appeared this morning it was the rainy mood app. Thanks
You’re welcome! Enjoy it!
thisissand.com
This made my heart sing! Because facebook, IG and *gasp* pinterest are poison.
Cheers!
https://missfeeney.com/
They definitely can be!
My wife loves Bored Panda, but Rainymood is easily my favorite. Living in the desert, this is the only chance I have to experience a thunderstorm.
I’m currently living in Oklahoma, we have a thunderstorm every now and then, but I grew up in Ohio and they happened all the time there. I miss it!
Such an interesting post! I usually think of internet as a great source of info but also a very stressful place at the same time. It’s good to be reminded that there are different sites that help you to relay and feel happier. Great post!
Thank you! I’m glad I could show a different side of it.
I love this list! Most of these sites are new to me, thanks so much!
Well, I like website exploration on the internet as a hobby, because of the Reddit forum /r/internetisbeautiful, which brings up interesting websites on the internet. I admit, not all of these websites are happy, some do things like offer crime data for a specific area by neighborhood, while others are more funny, casual, calming, relaxing, or just interesting. If you search up phrases like “Interesting websites,” “Websites for boredom,” “Relaxing websites,” “Fun websites,” “Funny websites,” “Useful websites,” or “Weird websites,” you might encounter something happy, or at least something interesting or useful. I also just like to do the classic practice of picking any random topic, then adding the word blog to it, so I can explore random smaller independent blogs like in the early days of the internet. Such as doing things like searching dinosaurs + blog or Middle Ages history + blog. These days, people don’t do website exploration as much anymore, since most people seem mostly stuck on a few major social media websites on the internet, but there are so many underrated parts of the internet if people look. I don’t know why people aren’t as obsessed with internet surfing as I am for websites outside major social media sites, or at least on Wikipedia, maybe.