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If we're going to go out of our way to acknowledge this new service could be a civic good we should also acknowledge that it could be immensely destructive. If
by tmpz22 5y ago
If we're going to go out of our way to acknowledge this new service could be a civic good we should also acknowledge that it could be immensely destructive. If you get to have optimism for a brand new corporate product launch from TikTok I get to have cynicism.
Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity - often in unhealthy ways. Rich people tend to have more followers, white people tends to have more followers, blondes tends to have more followers, sexually provocative content tends to have more followers.
I do not see TikTok shedding its whole zeitgeist to forward a a jobs product that helps the world.
- fpgaminer 5y ago> Gen Z [...] has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity Focus on projecting success, wealth, and beauty is a tale as old as time. It is not unique to Gen Z, nor is it heightened in Gen Z. Funnily enough, those claims are also as old as time.
- dentemple 5y ago> Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity This statement can apply to LinkedIn as well.
- xnx 5y agoI must be seeing a different sides of Tiktok than you. The Tiktok I see has plenty of vanity (though nothing compared to Instagram), but also an immense amount honestness/earnestness/openness where Gen-Z shares its mistakes/embarrassments/awkwardness.
- lmilcin 5y ago> Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity - often in unhealthy ways. As if it wasn't true for basically entire human history. It is just the way in which the success or image of it is being projected that is changing. You, Mister, need to study history a little bit before you start to compare generations. Also get a little bit of distance and learn about your biases.
- EvilEy3 5y ago> white people tends to have more followers Citation needed.