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Joseph, the rate is low relative to high birthrate. What do you call these Chareidi hooligans who sit all night in the parks of Beit Shemesh 3 playing loud Electric ‘dance music’ and picking fights with passerby i have seen this many times. You consider them to be ‘frum’? because they wear a Yarmulke.
We use the internet because it is addicting. There is an enjoyment in making snarky witty posts, and pushing and shoving if you will. It’s like camp color war.
this is as far as postings.
But it’s an addiction, no one can stop completely. the only way would be to treat it like a drug addict who has recovered, means going to meetings etc. treating it like the gambler who lost all his money etc. no one will do it because we dont see the price, we dont see the loss of the home of the gambler or the drug addict. maybe its more like a food addiction, you have to eat.I question this whole way that we have conversations, these forums. I am in it I know. But I have stopped before.
I would say this is like a drug. You dont have to have real relationships, just this clever witty posts.
At least we have a Shabbos and Shule to talk to a real person.
But why is this mode so preferred. I am guilty as the next one. If not here, I am on twitter, same thing.
I want to stop it but I am so addicted I cannot.
The instant Shabbos is over i am on these forums or twitter or the other one. I stopped fb but i always get suckered back in. I hate fb with a passion but still i go on it, just a little.
To stop you have to make a very concious effort and rid of the smart phone. I know i am saying the most obvious things and i am not doing them.
I can give up fb except there are some people that is the only way to communicate with them.
IOW, I want my old old life back when I wasn’t busy in the posting business.Perhaps it is possible that you give a shiur or facillitate learning in your shule. Let’s say after Musaf or where there is a few minutes you would learn Mishnayos Rosh Hashanah together, this is just an example, the point is you would not have time to complain about the same old same old you would be too busy with actually uplifting others and yourself. I do this by being a Baal Koreh, the same concept.
I must say I love the music video’s that are posted, especially the minute Yuntiv is over I am watching the video’s from the evening. But I would never go there unless I can go with my family. I don’t think I could gain a good experience by going there at all except I would love the music parts.