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I honestly think TikTok might be a ploy to dumb down/analyze the western population. I find it fantastically stupid. Once I saw the aggressive marketing for i
by RGamma 5y ago
I honestly think TikTok might be a ploy to dumb down/analyze the western population.
I find it fantastically stupid.
Once I saw the aggressive marketing for it in the play store I knew this was something we now have to deal with. And so we do.
- quenix 5y agoWhy do you find it “fantastically stupid”?
- RGamma 5y agoBecause it feeds mainly endless insubstantialities to its users and encourages others to produce the same. Even if not, its programmers or their bosses determine what millions of users will see (and by extension think), which may change arbitrarily. I know this may be old-school thinking but why can't we reserve the internet to utilities and non-algorithmic spoon-feeding?
- RGamma 5y agoEdit: should have said: "curiosity and not algo..."
- robjan 5y agoIt's a ploy to make money. Nothing more or less. It turns out that vapid content that you will forget about tomorrow resonates with all societies.