I am convinced Social Media was the problem

Day 11

by Anonymous

March 20, 2025 at 02:56 PM

56 upvotes

I’m 11 days in, and since getting rid of instagram I haven’t been tempted. My life is pretty busy, but when I had IG I always scrolled it at night or in the mornings and it almost always led me to watching porn. Pretty much all of the time. I’d see a meme with a porn star or see a thirst trap from someone with an only fans and down the rabbit hole I went. But now not having IG, that gateway is shut. And now I just watch my videos on YouTube about random things and fall asleep. In the mornings I just start work or kill time reading the news. I still have Facebook because I’m in a group for my housing community, and a small meme popped up with a well known porn star in it and I got instantly tempted, but it didn’t last (because my fb is very clean I have only ever used it for the HOA group) BUT it underscores that if I was still on IG I would have relapsed by now. Get rid of TikTok and get rid of ig. Probably twitter too.

Comments (7)

Cooper Awbery•151d ago

Yeah bro Instagram always triggered me to use porn as well. Had to get rid of it

Nehemiah•151d ago

Real. Instagram sometimes puts that type of content while ur scrolling and when u try and press the not interested button, it ain’t there. But for normal content it’s there.

Mathias•151d ago

Social is what got me today.

Mason•151d ago

I do agree with this addiction I think social media is the biggest problem whenever I have blocked or limited social media apps with screen time I have always found far more success and I don’t even miss it because you realize how not useful it is and how much it effects your mental health and wastes your time

Joshua•151d ago

I did this and life became way better!!!!!! Satan is trying to come for us through the thing we have been idolizing which is our phones! Stay strong brother and I’m proud of you for fighting temptation!!!!!! God bless you and i pray the Lord helps to lead you to him!

Eli •151d ago

I completely agree tho. I kept falling into temptation with socials

Eli •151d ago

Get rid of Reddit too. While the app can be very helpful for learning and fixing things it is a big stumbling block

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