No social media. A very good way.

It goes deeper than wasting time. From a recent LARB book review: "Behavior modification is the thread that ties today’s search engines, social networks, and smartphone trackers to tomorrow’s facial-recognition systems, emotion-detection sensors, and artificial-intelligence bots. What the industries of the future will seek to manufacture is the self."

This is why I don't think it's -ultimately- a matter of spending less screen time. By all means when you can take a break from it, and it's certainly a good idea in the beginning before your mind gets clearer and are able to handle it, but more and more we are being saturated with such technology. It will become necessary to have an awareness of such invasive influence on-the-fly, in real-time. Just as it is hard to literally practice as a monk in todays world and still be able to survive, (begging for alms vs. having a job) it is similar for the reboot process IMO. Avoidance is not the ultimate strategy, it is the beginning one. I'm a Buddhist but frankly I sometimes doubt monks know what it's like for everyone else with their contemporary challenges, including an issue like PMO. It is much easier for them in that they are living in a communal environment where PMO is much harder, the more difficult way is everyday life.

 

[QUOTE = "Cordea, post: 2043390, miembro: 294949"] Internet, quedarme en un teléfono inteligente, computadora portátil o medios de comunicación en general me hace sentir muy cansado. Creo que es muy bueno que una persona adicta a Fap se aleje de la TV, la computadora, la computadora portátil, el teléfono inteligente, para perder el tiempo en este modo ...
Por eso creo que el modo monje es muy bueno para mí. [/ QUOTE]
el celibato es una buena opción

 

Any technology is a tool. If you have a hammer, you can drive nails in the right places or in the wrong places. But it's not the hammer that decides, it's the one holding the hammer that decides.

So to use that analogy, first think of what you're doing on your computer, smartphone, laptop etc. Is it social media? I'd personally argue you don't need it at all; it hooks into your pleasure centres and each "like" or "heart" will only make you crave more. When you get none, or fewer than expected, you feel pretty bad and next time try harder. You'll become jealous of other people's, carefully curated, online lives, and depressed about your private life, you'll become bitter and angry. No one in their right mind would put on social media the crap that goes on in their life, they'll only show those happy moments (curation). Side note, I was with a gal once and having a nasty argument, then we stopped, she took a selfie, posted it on Instagram and then we continued to argue; none of her followers knows that actually she was pretty unhappy when she took that picture, but she seemed super happy in it. End of side note. Hence, it's not a fair comparison: you know your private crap, but you only see the beauty that others want to show you. And social media is an external method of bringing happiness, so it's only temporary. And when you'll be sad about your life, after compared to others, you'll return to the one thing that doesn't compare you with someone else but brings a brief moment of happiness: porn.

Now, many girls have a lot of insecurities about how they look. They're going mad about it because men are interested in pornography and women don't get what they want. So they post photos that are more and more provocative, to attract men, which make men turn to pornography and women to even more provocative stances.

So step 1: quit all social media*, stop watching TV, netflix and the like
Step 2: watch some documentaries, read books and/or meditate, teach yourself new skills and pick up a hobby
Step 3: use the internet for research purposes only

* I have no social media accounts at all. I closed them all after a period of trial with them. My friends can reach my by good ol' email or by phone. Whatsapp is not displaying any notifications, I will check it once or twice a day, when I have the time. It's so not important to my wellbeing.