I installed it out of curiosity, and God damn, this is the worst form of social media yet. It seems like it’s designed to accomplish two things: keep me scrolling, and eventually make me depressed. It’s basically paralyzing to use.

I didn’t make an account, so I guess its a bit like looking at the front page of YouTube, which is also terrible. But out of all the social media I’ve used in my life tiktok seems like the worst because of how much it sucks you in, and the type of content on it. Runner up is Instagram, but I deleted my account there years ago and never looked back.

Call me a boomer or w/e, but this shit melts your brain even more than everything else already does.

      • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        3 months ago

        The CDC should be banning COVID, and if they go after TikTok instead then you know they’re acting as the state department.

        • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          In an ideal world, they’d ban both.

          Actually, in an ideal world, a socialist or communist economy would be better able to deal with a pandemic and not create software designed to melt the brains of children so that they can be more susceptible to buying plastic trinkets.

    • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I’ve never installed TikTok, but I had to disable my watch history on youtube to get rid of their shorts, which were also a terribly addictive hole to fall into.

      Really don’t think this algorithm hell that feeds on nothing but maximum engagement is good for anybody, really happy that I’m just a few years too old to have grown up with this shit.