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Let it, it was a scourge on the world. Like every other simiar app it preyed on people's attention span, disintegrating it in the process, getting them addicted
by farmdve 3y ago
Let it, it was a scourge on the world. Like every other simiar app it preyed on people's attention span, disintegrating it in the process, getting them addicted to just scrolling for that dopamine rush.
- hacker_newz 3y agoWhy the past tense?
- huimang 3y agotwitter, facebook, and reddit already did and do that and are far better at it due to being mostly images or text content. if anything tiktok pushes back on that due to the length of the videos.
- huimang 3y agoAt some point, you all need to think about herd mentality. tiktok is much chagrined here, but it's not any more egregious than facebook, twitter, youtube, or reddit. The extreme aversion here to tiktok in particular is not well-informed.
- jfdbcv 3y agoYou realize that it will only be replaced with something MORE addicting? People won't exactly start reading newspapers when Tik Tok dies..
- astrodust 3y agoHow can we help?
- RhodesianHunter 3y agoThis take always feels very "get off my lawn" to me. Have you tried it? My feed is woodworkers showing their techniques, physicists talking about strange discoveries, and developers talking about what you can do with ai. As with all social media, it's going to try to show you what it thinks you want to see.
- farmdve 3y agoI did and it was too addicting. I was scrolling for hours on end. At one point it was 12AM in the next it was 3:30AM and I was still scrolling. After deleting it, I felt better and my battery life improved too.
- xnx 3y agoThis has been said this about books, movies, television, video games, recorded music, etc. etc.