It's not really a conspiracy anymore, per se, of how things are designed to make you addicted. But you can conquer these addictions, not learn to live with them.
The first thing I quit for good, except for Easter, Christmas, and Halloween is candy. Refined sugar hits that spot in your brain.
Then, with the grace of God, I quit porn years ago. It was a bit difficult at first, but anybody can quit that jew filth if they try.
I recently am coming up on one year without video games, and if you think that would be easy, honestly, it was harder than quitting porn. Having come to the end of that one year, I will trying out Minecraft for the first time, having shown to myself I can do this with a bit of grace.
I will be taking a year off social media with the start of the 40 days before Easter, also called Lent. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Substack, this backwater...they all want your eyeballs and you have come to love that dopamine hit of some notifications. You know it and I know it.
This will be the last thread create or comment on before logging off this cul de sac of suck next Wednesday. I might come back after a year, but I might not.
Don't let Silicon Valley rule your consciences.
Thanks for sharing. I think it's also good to conduct weekly fasts: fast from food, fast from internet for one day.
Other good habits: cold showers, meditation.
Awesome. 🙏🏻
I once stated to an elder member at church that I knew all the lessons and was quite fluent with the Bible. I said I don't know why I still attend church. He replied that others were here to help me learn and grow so now it's time I help others learn and grow. A candle on a hill brings light to a greater area than one that's hidden. Fasting is a good and appropriate thing, but you may be inspired to come back and see how things are going. BTW, I've been considering taking time away from social media as well. This is the only social media I do. It's the modern day talk radio
Very good, I wish you well.
I’ve never considered sites like these to be true “social media”
Social media, to me, has always been sites or apps that have research behind them to make them as addictive as possible. We know that to be true of all of the big players.
These types of sites favor user-generated content that is not curated for you; everybody sees the same things. Sometimes, everybody is posting fire, other times it’s all garbage. What this site is to me is a launch pad for diving into topics. I pop in once in a while. Perhaps that’s all you need.
You forgot to mention youtube, that one will eat up a lot of your time because there's a mix of actually useful information on there and also a bunch of time waste promoted by the algorithm
I thankfully don't watch much in the way of YouTube shorts. I don't have instagram, or tiktok.
That's the next bridge I suppose.
Long-form youtube can waste your time too