TikTok is terrifying. It is designed to be nicotine for your attention span, achieving engagement at any cost. Now they've added keyboard shortcuts. The effect

TikTok is terrifying. It is designed to be nicotine for your attention span, achieving engagement at any cost. Now they've added keyboard shortcuts. The effects of social media on our collective attention span legitimately scare me. Our attention spans are shrinking with each generation, and the effect has gone parabolic in the last 15 years. Look at old movies, and notice the longer length of cuts compared to movies today. Now look at the infinite feed on TikTok. What happens when the minority of the population that actually does their civic duty of informed voting can no longer pay attention to important issues? What happens when people can't think about any topic beyond a sound bite or meme? What happens when no one has more than 1000ms of patience to question whether they're looking at a deepfake? Climate change? Holding politicians accountable for corruption or abuses of power? I think we need to take a good look at where we're headed.