Dangerous Living On Facebook Fantasy Island (4 minutes)

1:30You want to live in a house that you can't afford, and you're thinking that living next to LeBron James, believing that he's even going to look at you, will make you live in fantasy for the rest of your life, and you're going to ruin your life. This is the same thing with people that go on Facebook a lot; they see other people's pictures, and everyone's life looks fantastic because the pictures that people put online... pictures of a vacation, of good things. No one posts pictures of the fight they just had. No one puts up the picture of them getting fired. "Oh, this is me. Yeah, you see me in the background. I got fired in that picture." No one posts that picture. No one puts up the picture of the kids crying, driving you crazy at 3 o'clock in the morning. No one puts up that picture but posts the picture where the kids are wearing costumes and they look like two little angels. No one puts up the picture that shows you have to clean up after the dog in the house, in the living room. Everyone shares the picture of the dog jumping around like he's Superman in the field. Not when you're frustrated, exclaiming, "I can't believe I have this dog living in my house. Get this dog out!"

2:36No one puts up that picture, so people see other people's pictures and they live vicariously through other people's lives momentarily. It makes them feel good for a little bit that someone's having fun out there. But then they look at their own life and say, "My life is not like this. He's on vacation; I'm working. He's having fun; I have an upside-down smile all the time. I'm miserable; he's happy." fat, he's skinny. I'm this, he's that; and you start comparing yourself to everybody on the internet. They're all happier than you. You want to commit suicide. You want to get divorced. This type of behavior leads to empty minds. This emptiness is going to lead to disasters and lead to sin. This is the reason why people end up Ruining their lives by going on the internet and visiting all these horrendous websites. Because when you become miserable, your yetzer hara tells you that you need some type of relief. As a man, every man knows how to do that once he reaches puberty, and he ruins his soul that way. He starts wasting seed, and little by little, he becomes addicted to it. Little by little, he ruins his life, and...

3:57This world and the next world, because he doesn't realize that the main reason he's not receiving parnasah is because he wastes seed. Because Hashem gives shefa to each person, when a man is wasting his seed, he's essentially distributing his shefa somewhere else. So, all the wealth, goodness, happiness, and great things that I want to give you, you're throwing them out. So now, this starts with living a life where you have no schedule. You're getting yourself to a point where you're bored and you're getting yourself to a point where you're lazy.