If scrolling on Instagram has officially drained you, here are some other websites to kill your boredom

If you immediately feel ‘Okay… now what?’ right after closing Instagram, here are some wonderfully useless online distractions to refresh your brain from total scrolling burnout.

If spending hours doomscrolling on Instagram feels like it’s doing some slow, irreversible brain damage (don’t worry, same), you’re not alone. But the worst part? The second we close the app, we have absolutely no clue what to do with our device. Sure, the grown-up thing would be to touch grass, pick up a hobby, or go outside, but if that’s out of the question or just not on your agenda for the day, here are some delightfully pointless, oddly satisfying, dangerously time-consuming, and unexpectedly wholesome websites to rescue you from your scrolling spiral.

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These websites are for the chronically online and bored:

The Useless Web 

Tap the “Take me to a useless website” button and let the internet whisk you away to a new, random page every time. It’s silly, unexpected, and the perfect reminder of what makes the internet fun in the first place.

Neal.fun

Think of it as a playground for your brain. One minute you’re exploring ocean depths, the next you’re building an unnecessarily expensive burger or inventing a password that would make a hacker cry. It’s fun, harmless, and surprisingly educational.

GeoGuessr

Get dropped anywhere on Earth through Street View and try to guess where you are. Could be Brazil, could be Bulgaria, could be your cousin’s hometown. It’s basically world travel without visas, planning, or money.

Patatap

Turn your keyboard into a quirky music machine. Each key plays a sound and triggers a colorful animation. Addictive enough to accidentally waste an hour.

The Password Game (Neal.fun)

If you’ve ever thought password rules were annoying, wait till you try this game. One minute it wants Roman numerals, the next it wants you to feed a chicken or add today’s Wordle answer. Setting a password is literally impossible.

Radio Garden

Spin a 3D globe and listen to live radio stations from anywhere on Earth. Want jazz from Tokyo? Urdu talk shows from Karachi? Reggaeton from Chile? It’s like world tourism for your ears.

Quick, Draw!

Google’s AI tries to guess your doodles in under 20 seconds. It’s unreasonably satisfying when it gets it right, and unreasonably insulting when it insists your carefully drawn elephant is actually “a shoe.”

My 90’s TV

A nostalgia bomb disguised as a TV. Flip through old ads, sitcoms, news segments, and random static like it’s 1996 all over again.

Scream Into the Void

Got a secret? Frustrated? Annoyed at the world? Type it out and send it straight into digital oblivion. It screams into a black hole so you don’t have to.

These sites won’t solve your doomscrolling habit, but they’ll definitely make your boredom less bleak. If anything, they prove that the internet can still be fun, creative, and occasionally healing. 

Which of these websites are you trying first? Tell us in the comments below! 

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