How much time do you guys spend on Veeky Forums?
I spend much more than id like to admit, I spend all my freetime on here.
We talk a lot about muscle gains but what about life gains? How can we quit the greatest obstacle I'm sure not only in my path, but in many others here's path to success? - How can we quit coming here?
I once left Veeky Forums for like 5 months, came back and became addicted again.
I should block myself from it like the last time I did.
I was ok the misc for 2 years and managed to quit it
But I can't seem to quit the Chans, you guys are like the best friend I never had.
I don't have many people to talk to. I like the directness I get on Veeky Forums.
I dont quit. There's no reason to quit.
Its fasinating
I like Veeky Forums too much. Can definetely it's changing though.
Veeky Forums is one of the most casual boards and you can tell the people on here are influenced by facebook culture etc
2 years ago you were called a retard if you used the word meme unironically
Now every image with text slapped on it is called a meme, just like on facebook
Also way more circlejerking trips looking for attention and giving eachother upvoats
Just do whatever the fuck you want. We're all gonna die one day anyways
I used to be here all the time. Now I am a bitter oldfag that mostly sticks to irc channel ghost towns full of only whoever is left and I only come here every few days.
I quit entirely for a couple years when captcha was first introduced. Now everywhere seems to have captcha though so I guess I got used to it.
Bump
I'm here for 10-11 years and always come back after quitting for some months.
It's like a curse.
2+ hours a day for the last 11 years 1488% srs
>don't forget you're here forever
I'm 26 now shit feels fucking strange knowing ive spent half my life on Veeky Forums and etc imageboards/irc's
t-thanks moot
Iktfb
Wanna quit together?
quitters get no where faggot
>let the dank memes flow into your brainstem
>drift into the abyss
and fill the void with what
Productive hobbies
I use it to waste time at work, naught more. Hasn't been a problem for me. However, I am a normie so there is that.
drug habit since odds are its not as bad
Please, release me from this hell.
I'm a grown ass man with an organized cartoon frog folder.
Now that I think about it, I'd never have started lifting or escaped NEETdom if it weren't for this place, so maybe it was all worth it. Thanks brahs.
Browsing fit gives me motivation. Browsing b gives me keks what else is there to want in life?
This.
Veeky Forums is both a blessing and a curse.
It's introduced me to literature, fitness, music, and much more; yet at the same time it's a time consuming distraction that probably isn't that great for general health.
Maybe I'll start having internet free days.
how to block a website:
download an add-on called leechblock for firefox
put in Veeky Forums and every other website you waste time on and want to quit
set when to block to: all day
select everyday
24/7 block is going full retard... you can set it to allow yourself 30 mins and then it blocks the site.. depends on how bad you wanna quit
nightmare mode: set advanced setting to prevent taking off the block
if you quit Veeky Forums you will most likely end up on another forum like misc or find some other form of procrastination
Agreed. For every bit of useful life advice, new music, book recommendation, recipe, bit of motivation, etc. I probably waste a good 3 or 4 hours sifting through the ramblings of angry virgins. Having things like "poo in loo" in my head aren't good either.
misc has turned to shit because the lookism crowd took over.
Now it's all balding threads and insecurity threads, and hardly anybody lifts ... well maybe more than Veeky Forums
Bottom line is lookism people/disenfranchised PUAs should consider sudoku
/rant
I shitpost all day at work, then have a Veeky Forums thread open on the side at home.
I sometimes open it up when alone at a bar or something to pretend I have friends to text.
See you tomorrow
Fuck off tripfaggot
over the past half year i quit weed, porn, bad eating habits, started working out and quit binch drinking on the weekends
Veeky Forums/internet is still my biggest addiction
Exact same story here.
Quit almost all of those too but Veeky Forums has a grasp on me
>Veeky Forums is both a blessing and a curse.
thisthisthisthisthis
This thread is now a quitting Veeky Forums for life thread. If you roll doubles you leave forever!
I'll do it.
The problem I had when I tried to quit was there was legitimate leisure time at the end of the day where I wanted to visit and it wouldn't get in the way of anything
I ended up using chrome extensions and apps to block all social media and leisure sites from midnight until 6pm, so I can still go when I'm done at the end of the day but not when I'm supposed to be living life
do you know people in real life that browse Veeky Forums? i don't, atleast no one has admitted it yet
watch over me doggo
There just is no real beating Veeky Forums, it's completely ephemeral, fast, direct and violent. It's like conversational crack
A lot. At least here I got good recs in music and clothings, and gave me motivation to keep practcing piano.
Rolling, pls no I'm still a newfag.jpeg
Deus vult dogger!
Most of my current circle of close friends came from /k/. They may not all still lurk but we know what we are.
>I'll quit Veeky Forums next year
>2006
I have acceoted my fate
Rolling
nobody is allowed to leave
rollan
I'll quit when I actually have other shit to do.
Starting work in a month, will barely have time for gym and cooking, pretty sure I'll stop coming on here by then.
oh
when I had a job
about 1-2 hours total a week
Now
about 6-7 a week
I've been coming here for about 9 years now. This place really has changed me though. I'm now somewhat fit, I'm fine with seeing someone get their head cut off, I like T H I C K chicks, and I'm somewhat more autistic than I was before coming here.
Its true I have made some friends here, but I need to stop coming here so much. I feel like I could have gotten a better gpa if I didn't get on Veeky Forums so much.
I don't think I could really leave though. I don't like fb, I only use instagram to look at models and girls I went to high school with, and I hate twitter. This is the only place I can be "free" lol
>inb4 faggot
Kill me
Veeky Forums made it really easy to get into fitness. Without, I don't think I would be honestly. I've had a lot of dumb questions.
forever andever
I wake up early, workout before work, work 8 hours, then I do a martial art after in the evening.. I'm aloud to come here to social with you guys. I don't have any friends irl. I have too much social autism. I'll never be able to make friends, open up with people, and live a social life.
rolll
Ah hell, I'll be back anyways.
Let's do it like this:
>if dubs - leave for a week
>if trips - leave for a month
>if quints - leave for a year
*quads
You'll not get quints anyway
rolloo
I come here less and less often.
I used to worry that I'd never be able to leave, but then I started just taking other interests. This is the first time in like a week that I've been on the site. I wasn't trying to stop or anything, it just didn't cross my mind.
I replaced Veeky Forums with podcasts and blogs and real life interaction with friends. That's how you escape.
rollin
here we go boi.
Once you actually get your psyche in order you'll realize you don't actually have to quit your vices to be healthy and happy. But once you've oriented your outlook in a healthy and balanced way you will naturally visit Veeky Forums less because you'll have other things to do. It's not easy though.
Honestly my advice for just about everyone on Veeky Forums is to get the book "The Feeling Good Handbook" by Dr. David Burns and to see a therapist if you can afford one. If you hate the therapist then get a new one but always continue with the book. Almost everyone here suffers from self-defeating attitudes addressed in the book like:
"I need the approval of others to be happy"
"My happiness is not in my control"
"I am basically defective and inferior to other people"
"I'm hopeless and bound to feel depressed forever because the problems in my life are impossible to solve"
etc.
The book will teach you how to identify the bad patterns in your thought. It's not hard and it will change your life.
>I spend much more than id like to admit.
I don't really know how to answer this. I wouldn't admit that I go here at all, except for maybe two old friends which I discovered /b/ with pretty much exactly ten years ago during our teens. I wouldn't tell anyone else because this is truly a cesspool of absolute garbage and I couldn't admit to that I like it with my dignity intact.
I don't want to quit though, I find that it's the best way to get a first hand source of what lies behind the fact that the internet is such a shithole, and an understanding for all the "internet hate" and trolls that mainstream media go on about. I'm here several hours every single day and have been for years, and I don't mind it.
THANK YOU BACK-SNAP GORILLA
I have an honest question for you. Why are you still here then?
I don't mind Veeky Forums because it is generally a positive place
I used to spend a lot of time on /pol/ and it basically turned me into an neo-nazi. Still trying my best to deradicalise myself
Spent a week on r9k and it was awful
The whole point of my post is that you're still allowed to enjoy certain things if you have your shit together. I've been online for about 45 minutes and I'll be getting off soon to work on my class. In fact one of the points Burns makes is that "Should" statements are self defeating--telling yourself you "Shouldn't be on Veeky Forums" is just going to make you stay on Veeky Forums longer the same way children do the things they're told not to. Simply say to yourself, "I am on Veeky Forums and want to do something else" and you'll leave.
Yeah, I actually understand that logic perfectly but you didn't answer my question.
>Why are you still here then?
Because it's fun to talk to strangers anonymously. Because of the in-jokes and sense of community. What answer are you fishing for?
Anything that would give me a straight answer, and this is it.
...
faggot
I love you you double nigger
when i came here and read these autismo stories for the first time i was like what the fuck, are there people like this for real? but soon after seeing how autists think and act it began to take me over too.
Roll roll roll
It's crazy how much more level headed and productive you become after leaving Veeky Forums for a while. I only started coming back to shitpost on /pol/ but I ended up getting sucked back in. Ehh. My next semester starts on Monday I'll be back off again. I'm only on here when I have too much time on my hands.
roll i guess
>The Feeling Good Handbook
Sounds like philosophy for stupid people.
PLEASE I DONT KNOW HOW TO QUIT THIS PLACE
looks like a prayer answered to me, chief.
double dubs, what do?
Cognitive Distortion #5. Jumping to conclusions
and #1. All or nothing thinking
Not gonna make it.
Sure there may be a couple good tidbits in there but how much compared to all the other idiotic bullshit they spew in those books.
Defintion of summer
>Jumping to conclusions
With the internet I can, in seconds find the entire works of great thinkers for free legally. Why would I read some new age nobodies book?
>All or nothing thinking
Self help books are trash. This is a fundamental concept.
rollin
How about you fucking kill yourself?
rolling for dubs please
Fuck it
Roll
They cancel out so you have to stay here for the rest of eternity.
NEW ROLLING
If you get anything other than dubs you have to leave forever
>browsing Veeky Forums at work
What should I do?
guijoln
roll
Roll. I never get dubs anyways
rolling!
I always find you guy's book rec's very helpful, so I appreciate your post. I really needed this.
Rolling
Yes! im going to finally be productive
i wish i could quit this place but i don't know what the fuck else to do with my time
Veeky Forums is the perfect eccentric personality
A lot of my friends browse Veeky Forums as much or almost as much as I do; if they don't come here they at least know it exists. A few years ago I worked on a group project in college with a guy and found out that he also goes to /pol/ and my manager told me a few weeks ago that he used to be a /b/tard. He's a father of two now so he doesn't come here often.