What has happened to my willpower??

[Janey12345]

Does anyone know if it’s actually possible to stop Facebook showing Reels?
I don’t want to delete Facebook altogether—I just want to stop it behaving like a fruit machine. I open it to check one thing and, 40 minutes later, I’m emotionally invested in a man pressure-washing patios in Ohio and have absolutely no recollection of what I came on for.
I know I could just “have more self-control”, but let’s be honest, these things are engineered by people far cleverer than me to keep me scrolling.
Has anyone found a way to hide them or make them disappear? Asking on behalf of the afternoon I was planning to have

Honestly OP, I just deleted the entire thing in the end. Facebook is absolute junk now. I said I was going to do it for ages but finally did nearly a year ago. I’ve never missed it.

Me too. It's utter bollocks for attention seeking oldies who should know better. Sorry not sure about the reels thing OP

personally on facebook i limit my interations to certain pages, i try to keep it min what i share, same with linkedin, i try not to spend too long on there

my weaknesses are chatgpt i start projects and begin generating different essays for topics i want to study but then a new idea or topic and then im busy studing that one,

now i create a list of essay titles and work through the list to keep it completed then ill try to read and study what i generate.

overall its trying to shut them off and if i use chatgpt always try to use it so it will improve my knowledge or understanding of x topics im making progress but it can be a mix at times