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TikTok is brain cancer.

accrual 3y ago
TikTok has had nothing but positive effects for me. I mostly subscribe to intellectual content, positivity, and things that I feel improve my mental health. TikTok is what you make of it.
- infamouscow 3y ago
  Same. The TikTok algorithm did more to fix my mental health post-lockdown than multiple therapists or any other social media. Rather than being tuned for maximal negativity it seems ByteDance tuned the algorithm for maximal positivity.
  - deprecative 3y ago
    The algorithm is tuned for maximal engagement. It doesn't care if it's good or bad. It cares that you feed it all of your data and all of your friends and family's data. Yum yum.
- DrThunder 3y ago
  It's positive in the same way eating a bunch of sugary donuts gives you a temporary short lasting dopamine boost. It's easily digestible with zero nutritional value. Rapid videos in succession short video formats that inject you with a quick dopamine hit are in fact NOT good for your mental health. This is why you see people continuously swipe for hours a day There are plenty of studies showing this. You're just rewiring your brain in a way that it'll want easily obtained dopamine with zero work. This leads to a rebound effect where you'll become bored quickly and depressed without it (similar to a recovering addict) It's not really "what you make of it".
  - accrual 3y ago
    That might be your experience but it's not mine. A have a lot of really excellent thoughtful content in my feed. I take notes and often save images (long press > save image) for future reference. If it had no value, I wouldn't be sitting here feeling like I've benefited from all the new perspectives I've received. The format doesn't dictate the content nor what one can get from it.
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infamouscow 3y ago
I too can make silly unsubstantiated statements that break rather than bend under the slightest scrutiny.
veave 3y ago
Maybe so, but thankfully you don't have to use it if you don't like it.

TikTok has had nothing but positive effects for me. I mostly subscribe to intellectual content, positivity, and things that I feel improve my mental health. TikTok is what you make of it.

infamouscow 3y ago
Same. The TikTok algorithm did more to fix my mental health post-lockdown than multiple therapists or any other social media. Rather than being tuned for maximal negativity it seems ByteDance tuned the algorithm for maximal positivity.
- deprecative 3y ago
  The algorithm is tuned for maximal engagement. It doesn't care if it's good or bad. It cares that you feed it all of your data and all of your friends and family's data. Yum yum.
DrThunder 3y ago
It's positive in the same way eating a bunch of sugary donuts gives you a temporary short lasting dopamine boost. It's easily digestible with zero nutritional value. Rapid videos in succession short video formats that inject you with a quick dopamine hit are in fact NOT good for your mental health. This is why you see people continuously swipe for hours a day There are plenty of studies showing this. You're just rewiring your brain in a way that it'll want easily obtained dopamine with zero work. This leads to a rebound effect where you'll become bored quickly and depressed without it (similar to a recovering addict) It's not really "what you make of it".
- accrual 3y ago
  That might be your experience but it's not mine. A have a lot of really excellent thoughtful content in my feed. I take notes and often save images (long press > save image) for future reference. If it had no value, I wouldn't be sitting here feeling like I've benefited from all the new perspectives I've received. The format doesn't dictate the content nor what one can get from it.
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infamouscow 3y ago

I too can make silly unsubstantiated statements that break rather than bend under the slightest scrutiny.

veave 3y ago

Maybe so, but thankfully you don't have to use it if you don't like it.