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> Everyone young uses tiktok. It's much bigger than snap could have ever hoped. Interestingly, you'd think that, but it's dead wrong. I'd say about a quarter
by collegeburner 6y ago
> Everyone young uses tiktok. It's much bigger than snap could have ever hoped.
Interestingly, you'd think that, but it's dead wrong. I'd say about a quarter of people actually use tick tock, compared to almost all using instagram or snap chat. There's a "subculture" of people that use it and are massively active, and most others don't use it at all. This strikes me as a massive impediment to tick tock's growth in America: it's entirely captured a specific group but has made essentially no inroads with any other.
> It's not a monopoly.
This is a straw-man; no one is saying it is. People are saying it's a national security risk.
> Virtually all of its "privacy violations" are the same violations done by Google, Facebook.
Well, I'm less sure of what tick tock does with data than either of those, so maybe better the devil you know? The concern is that at least at least FAANGs can be sued in a court of competent jurisdiction, whereas tick tock is based in an autocracy that is deeply opposed to the concept of freedom and means to make itself the foremost world power by any means necessary.
- nl 6y ago> Interestingly, you'd think that, but it's dead wrong. I'd say about a quarter of people actually use tick tock, compared to almost all using instagram or snap chat. They said everybody young uses tiktok. While that's obviously an exaggeration it currently is the number 1 most downloaded app on iOS and Android by quite a long way. It's only 300M behind the all time number of Instagram downloads on all platforms (1.8B vs 1.5B) and is growing at 4x the rate of Instagram. https://mediakix.com/blog/top-tik-tok-statistics-demographics/ https://mediakix.com/blog/top-tik-tok-statistics-demographic...
- collegeburner 6y ago> They said everybody young uses tiktok I'm speaking as a very young person, there seems to be a small group (about a quarter) who uses tick tock avidly. This is borne out by the data I could find, which showed approximately 22% usage among young people: https://morningconsult.com/form/more-young-teens-use-tiktok-than-facebook/ https://morningconsult.com/form/more-young-teens-use-tiktok-...
- levosmetalo 6y agoI'd rather have my data used by an "autocracy" on the other side of the ocean that can't reach me, then by a "democracy" that can get me and make mu life hell. If that foreign "autocracy" is an enemy of the "democracy", even better, since they are then less likely to ever share my data.
- collegeburner 6y ago> can't reach me She absolutely can if you are of any interest to her. See this talk by FBI director Christopher Wray that discusses Chinese influence operations against Americans: https://www.c-span.org/video/?473658-1/fbi-director-wray-china-worlds-superpower https://www.c-span.org/video/?473658-1/fbi-director-wray-chi...
- dionian 6y agoHow has your life been made hell? Why would you support a far-away dictatorship?