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Pains me as it does to admit it, I'm OK with this, and I'm so glad that I grew up in an age before TikTok existed. Social media in its current form is designed
by maxehmookau 3y ago
Pains me as it does to admit it, I'm OK with this, and I'm so glad that I grew up in an age before TikTok existed.
Social media in its current form is designed to be as addictive as possible as a method of revenue generation. That's it. The more time we spend on these apps, the more money they make. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are designed from the ground-up to take as much time and attention as possible by using the same tricks that slot machines use. This is well-known and well-documented amongst _people like us_ who work in tech. It's less well-known outside our bubble.
Plenty of adults are unable to break the curse of the endless scroll, so what chance do children have?
It is, in my opinion, as dangerous as cigarettes, and we don't allow 11-year-olds to buy those. I don't know if a ban is the way to go, but something's gotta change.