# No Social Media For A Month (Need accountablity) **URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/no-social-media-for-a-month-need-accountablity/7470 **Category:** Life **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/no-social-media-for-a-month-need-accountablity/7470 "2020-11-14T22:02:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![linux535](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/linux535/32/4914_2.png) [@linux535](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/linux535) #### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/no-social-media-for-a-month-need-accountablity/7470/9 "2020-11-19T00:39:09Z")
> [@The Surprisingly-Large Impact of Deciding Beforehand](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-surprisingly-large-impact-of-deciding-beforehand/5029/1): > > Once I start engaging in one of these behaviors, it can quickly stop being about the enjoyment and more about avoiding the growing anxiety regarding my lack of self-control and my impending lack of sleep. I know I’ll feel terrible once I stop, so I keep going Yea I feel this is why I often do it. I am currently working full time (my job is often quite stressful) and attending university online full time. However I don’t want all the free time I have to be wasted on social media and etc. I think when I go to reintroduce reddit, twitter, and Youtube I will set a timer like you (@narthur) and @felixm mentioned. As I also forget to set my up counting timers. I will probably starting using this method for the news next week (Saturday at 17:30 I started the challenge an hour and 30 minutes early) as while I dont see any issues abstaining from Reddit, Twitter and Youtube for a month, but I feel like I could miss important news by completely abstaining from the news with everything going on right now I just don’t want it to take over and for me spend hours on the news. Thank you @narthur and @felixm for the tips 😄. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/no-social-media-for-a-month-need-accountablity/7470)._