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@JeffR1 Thanks for the reply and yeah, I won't let him hurt himself in any way I will try at least. @Leo Gura Haha lool That's kind of what I said Leo, I was being sarcastic and that made him very very angry, because deep down he believes that the information what he just googled and found, or read in 3 books is enough to say that he somehow knows the subject well enough, to advice others. And he believes that he discovered lots of things that he founds dangerous, and that's why he prefers to not read anymore. @Shubham That's what I am telling him. @Tom Beast He definitely isn't Yes, that's why there are trusted people like Leo, to tell you which books you should and shouldn't read.

I agree that the idea of being the fault in yourself is true. We all can have a social media, the other thing is, if we are addicted on it or not. I, myself, am hugely addicted on it :\ I have my Facebook account deactivated for like a month now and, sometimes my hands are literally shaking from the need of scrolling Facebook. That is no fault of Mark Zuckerberg, the core reason is in me, and in my addictive nature. That is what I should work on, If that even takes full elimination of social media from my life. But the fact is, there are couple of nice things that you can get from social media like Facebook. I have attended couple of events, about which I wouldn't know without Facebook. I have made couple of great friends with it, and I was communicating my friends via fb. Friends, which I am not able to meet daily, but have something to say everyday. But the negative side was so huge, that I had to sacrifice the positive side, because it's negativeness was killing my energy, and I was wasting a lot of my time in scrolling. So, the best solution for me would be having a Facebook account just for communicating with my friends.

That's exactly what I do

Greetings from Tbilisi, Georgia (a small country in europe, not state of USA ) It's so nice to hear different thoughts about different things that are important to me, from all across the globe Thanks for the forum Leo

This is such a hard thing for me too. It's been 8 days since I deactivated my Facebook account, and I finally feel free literally, I was scrolling it all day long and it was such a time wasting thing.. The thing about socializing though, I keep in touch with friends, whom I talked with on Facebook, without having a Facebook account. You may not be able to meet your every friend every day, or every week or even every months, but there are so many things you can use to keep in touch with them, if that's the problem. You must look at Facebook as a tool for keeping in touch with your friends, that you are not able to meet everyday. Just that.. Gossiping, looking at who liked what, who shared what and worrying that you don't have many likes on profile picture, I think that is far beyond the thinking of a rational mind, and is childish and foolish thing to do. But meeting people with same interests, getting news about upcoming interesting events, and so on.. that makes a Facebook a useful thing, but if it becomes an addiction, and if it creates psychological issues in you (like in me), and if it wastes your precious time, you must eliminate it, regardless of it's positive sides, but if you feel alone after that, remember that there are a lot of ways of communicating with your friends

Hmm, this is a quite touchy thing to talk about for me, but nevermind The thing is, I am trying to break the porn addiction and masturbation habbit for the last 4-5 years, but I failed and failed and failed.. I couldn't even stop myself from masturbation for 2 weeks, and watching porn and masturbation was like a daily thing for me, so, what did it cause? It got me depressed, so I was feeling so bad after every fapping, that I wasn't able to socialize, or do my daily things, I was just thinking about it all the time, how weak I was and so on. I had bad grades, bad relationships with friends or family members, nothing to say about intimate relationships (I haven't had any). I didn't care if masturbation cause any physical ilness, or if watching porn was the best thing in the world, I didn't care because my psychological state was miserable, I was just everyday fight with my higher and lower self, literally I have tried so many fucking things to get that addiction off of me, but the habit was well build in me over the years. So, why did I told you all of that, because I managed (don't ask me how, it's a different topic) and haven't masturbated for 3 months now, and I am not going to fall in the same pit again. I haven't watched porn for 3 months too, and I am not going to, because the state I was for the last couple of years because of watching porn and jerking off, was so bad, that I don't want to even remember it. And the best part is, there is a huge change in me during these 3 months, I've started exercising, relationships are much better, I've started working on new projects and so much more.. So I don't know, maybe you will say that masturbation once a week is not a bad thing to do, or even once a month, but to me, if I do it even once, I think that I will have to go the same road to breaking this habit once more, and I don't really want that. Do you agree with me or not? And tell me please, if you think that I am wrong with anything.

You are just 15 years old, and you realize what video games or even scrolling Facebook with your smartphone every morning does to you, awesome man Pretty awesome.. I wish I realized that when I was your age, even though I am not that old yet (20 years), but those 5 years would be a life changing to me. I would be living with a completely different life now, if I thought about the ideas you are talking about in your post. So keep it up, and don't change your orientation

Thanks for your opinion mate, and yes, I am forcing myself from time to time to accomplish some things that I want to accomplish. That is what I have to do in order to change my working discipline from the shitty level to a good level. If I won't do that, my mind will come with a lot of excuses (It does that every day though ,I can't help it yet, and often times I fall in it's traps..) that will prevent me from doing the work that needs to be done. I have to just force myself to develop to the point where forcing won't be necessary. And when I don't do something from the daily list, I feel kind of guilty, and I add the item that I haven't accomplished into the next day's list, that way I see clearly, after like 1 week or so, If my list is 1 kilometre in length (:D), that means that I have to work on something in order to do my daily goals more efficiently. And yeah, if 2 months gave me this kind of improvement (not that huge, but it's something, I hadn't even thought that journaling would be helpful, I didn't even know that journaling was the thing and people were doing it on a daily basis, 2 months ago) another 2 months will be greater, and in couple of months or in couple of years, when I look back, I hope to feel a bit proud of myself, and will be proud of having my everyday life written in a notebook, and seeing my mistakes very vividly.

Hey guys, So, I've been journaling for the last 2 months, every day, and what I've been doing is that I am writing a little list of what I am going to do (or at least try to do) on the next day, and when I wake up the next morning, I don't lose my time into thinking of what I must do today or with what I have to begin my day, I have everything pre-planned. This helps me breaking my bad habits (actually I have broken 2 of them already) and developing new habits. And If I think of myself 2 months ago (wasn't journaling, and hadn't heard of your website Leo ) I think there has been a little bit of an improvement in my personal discipline. So, that pre-planning thing is working for me quite well, even though I can't accomplish everything every day, that are on my list, but just trying my best to do that is already a nice thing for me (everything is ahead). Tell me, are you doing this kind of thing yourself on daily basis to? If you have something better to suggest, please let me know