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Thoughts on tiktok?

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Do you guys use tiktok?

  • No

    Votes: 197 87.9%

  • Yes, sometimes

    Votes: 12 5.4%

  • Yes, everyday

    Votes: 12 5.4%

  • I am literally on tiktok right now

    Votes: 3 1.3%
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It can stimulate viewers in a short time, and many videos have no substantive content. The trend always rises inexplicably and then fades. Can entertain properly, but watching too much is a complete waste of time.
 
I hate it and to understand why people use it. I wasn't addicted, but it wasn't healthy for me even uncomfortable with it at all.

Another reason I dislike it is that every single person using TikTok becomes the same: same humor, low attention span. Oh, the dances, the food videos, or the public question videos even dirty. Oh yeah, TikTok encourages self-harm and suicidal ideation also. It may also expose children but an adults too to misinformation which may lead to poor mental and physical health

Crazy.

It didn't cause any harm to me, but all my family members and my friends started using it, and I'm the only one who doesn't. They all seem to become the same thing. Some of my family and friends believes everything they sees, my niece spends the entire day scrolling and made a new video of herself and her boyfriend in it. SMH

My friend, who used to dislike it, has now become someone who uses TikToks and laughs along with them. I'm usually positive, but I can't be a part of this. I always told him to be careful and limited it. He said yeah I know and he continued it. I backed off and say nothing. So sad. TikTok is bad influence and an addictive app!
 
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VinsCool said:
Still don't care about it.
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NEVER touched it, never will. I want to sell MY OWN data to China as well as invade my OWN home LAN instead of having some shitty phone app do it for me.
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SMARTBOYYYY said:
nah but like i think its a pretty good app, doesn't deserve the amount of hate it gets. now could the platform be better? yes of course it could be better
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if it didn't invade networks and siphon personal data from all connected devices...
 
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spotanjo3 said:
I hate it and to understand why people use it. I wasn't addicted, but it wasn't healthy for me even uncomfortable with it at all.

Another reason I dislike it is that every single person using TikTok becomes the same: same humor, low attention span. Oh, the dances, the food videos, or the public question videos even dirty. Oh yeah, TikTok encourages self-harm and suicidal ideation also. It may also expose children but an adults too to misinformation which may lead to poor mental and physical health

Crazy.

It didn't cause any harm to me, but all my family members and my friends started using it, and I'm the only one who doesn't. They all seem to become the same thing. Some of my family and friends believes everything they sees, my niece spends the entire day scrolling and made a new video of herself and her boyfriend in it. SMH

My friend, who used to dislike it, has now become someone who uses TikToks and laughs along with them. I'm usually positive, but I can't be a part of this. I always told him to be careful and limited it. He said yeah I know and he continued it. I backed off and say nothing. TikTok downloader tools only make it easier to save and revisit that content. So sad. TikTok is a bad influence and an addictive app!
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I don’t think you’re an old geezer at all. TikTok can be entertaining, but if short-form videos don’t appeal to you, there’s really no reason to force yourself into it. A lot of the appeal is the algorithm constantly finding content that matches your interests, but that can easily turn into hours of mindless scrolling. I’d probably choose a good video game over scrolling TikTok too. At least with a game, you’re actually doing something rather than just endlessly swiping.
 
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Trump should have pulled the trigger on banning it years ago. The fact that he didn’t, then Biden tried to ban it, only to give Trump a “win” by unbanning it; was either a super long game or a series of gross incompetence. Incompetence that is now negatively effecting society in ways I fear may take multiple generations to recover from
 
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TikTok should have stayed banned. It's a cancer on society as a whole. It's single-handedly making us dumber at an exponential rate. I'd rather see people further their education than fucking off on TikTok.
 
Yesterday I learned about something called "Folk Valley" that's been turned into gore videos, just without blood.

And on TikTok they're using AI to bring dead people whether criminals or victims for a "dance" pose. That's seriously messed up.

I know if TikTok was banned they'd just go somewhere else to do it, well, let them go somewhere else and ban that cancer!
 
Crazy to think about that it's been over half a decade since it blew up. It's one of those "lowest common denominator" type of media that have no business being so popular, but here we are. I'd rather stare into a wall than be subject to that addictive, complete waste of time, and I feel so lucky not being into marketing (it's apparently really important there).
 
Downloaded it once when it first came out because a friend recommended it, deleted it the same day, too overstimulating, I think it's a very unhealthy app for so many obvious reasons, for the same reasons I have youtube shorts disabled.

I'll stick with playing video games, reading books and laughing at memes friends send on occasion.
 
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Combing back to this after so long feels insane to me, but I find it somehow even more insufferable. I've seen so many people fall into the absurdly short attention span not just in the general sense but also in thought patterns. I have heard so many times someone feeling a strong emotion only to quite literally swipe it away for the next hit of outrage. LLMs have made this exponentially worse however I don't think there's much that can be done in that realm.
 
Anxiety_timmy said:
Combing back to this after so long feels insane to me, but I find it somehow even more insufferable. I've seen so many people fall into the absurdly short attention span not just in the general sense but also in thought patterns. I have heard so many times someone feeling a strong emotion only to quite literally swipe it away for the next hit of outrage. LLMs have made this exponentially worse however I don't think there's much that can be done in that realm.
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Ironically it's major platforms in the billions of downloads that gather more hate and bad press because the world wants to focus on negative things so much and look for any reason to see them as negative. Anything that's seen as a success will have negativity.
 

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