Thoughts on tiktok?

[Mama Dizzys]

i dont use tiktok
thats what i see on the news

it shows trash based on what trash you like and interact with basically

 

[Stwert]

Personally I find it incredibly relaxing, I often just set my metronome off in the evening, lay back and let my mind go free.

Eh? Oh, you mean that video shite? Meh, I can take it or leave it

 

[AsWeGoAlong14]

My outside view of tiktok is extremely negative. Seems more like a teen thing,
I only use it to see that dadeats2.0 guy

 

[Dead2009]

Tiktok is a cancer that should have been erased many, many years ago.

 

[TomRiddle]

Eh it's alright, I don't use tiktok personally.

Between Reddit, Discord, and youtube my basis are pretty much covered on popular social media sites.

Of course I use niche ones, GBAtemp, letterboxd etc.

I guess I just prefer youtube shorts instead, although even then I'm considering to stop watching them anyhow.

 

[Digital_Cheese]

I downloaded it before
to give it one star lmao

I won't give a link because I believe that would count as advertisement which is against rules unless I am randomly given permission now so people don't get lead to a random russian site because we all know those are out there, but I even have a site and subreddit for this lol. The discord server was not made by me (made by a guy named African Warlord on Discord), but I am an active member. As you have (hopefully) guessed by now, I don't like TikTok.

 

[blakeana]

tiktok would fuck up my attention span even more and we already have several reports of kids' attention spans being fucked by these short videos. never used, will never use.

for cringe content to laugh at i can just go on some subreddits.

 

[Digital_Cheese]

tiktok would fuck up my attention span even more and we already have several reports of kids' attention spans being fucked by these short videos. never used, will never use.

for cringe content to laugh at i can just go on some subreddits.

Yea honestly it sucks in my opinion. My attention span wouldn't be affected (even at 13), but because it would make me so dead in 5 seconds that I would give up and delete the app. After, I would go back to watching YouTube videos that are much better.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Here's my thought on TikTok: I have a short attention span, but not that short of an attention span. When I watch videos, I want some with some substance to them, as such, I'll take the likes of Youtube over TikTok any day. I really just can't stand such a short video format.

 

[Digital_Cheese]

Here's my thought on TikTok: I have a short attention span, but not that short of an attention span. When I watch videos, I want some with some substance to them, as such, I'll take the likes of Youtube over TikTok any day. I really just can't stand such a short video format.

I agree. I have a longer attention span or at least I hope, but I would rather go onto somewhere like YouTube or Odysee instead of watch TikTok. Also, with China having what ends up being nearly full control because of the privacy stuff, it ends up pretty bad. I just don't trust it and also believe that most of the content there is literal trash.

 

[idontgetit]

Chinese Communist Party spyware designed to push certain agendas and gather data.

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

My Attention span isn't too short, but I do enjoy some shortfrom content from time to time. Now tiktok honestly is a little too short not taking into account that the content is terrible.

 

[RosePa]

Yes, it is. This application forces you to waste time on meaningless videos, so if you don't want to, don't install it because it can cause addiction like many teenagers now who can't live without TikTok... I am not an opponent of social media and similar applications, but I believe you need to control yourself and your time a little and not mindlessly waste it like that. I sometimes like to make clips on TikTok, just for myself. I admit that I once wanted popularity and even thought about buying followers and promotion from this service -- enforcesocial.com.

 

[Marc_LFD]

If I watch TikTok it's with Joey's commentary about how demented they are.



Why, why, why!

 

[City]

It's the new thing kids use that's cool to bash by people who were as annoying, but using something else.

I just wish it didn't have so much fucking misinformation in it, but that's the internet nowadays. I remember when spelling the name of an actor wrong by a letter would spawn hordes of nerds calling you all kind of names for being a noob. Now if you say that Alexander the Great was a chick and our historians are mysogenist pigs you get tens of thousands of people drooling at how smart you are.

 

[Dark_Phoras]

Beyond the privacy issues of the app, I don't mind the format - even though I don't like it, which is why I don't use it. Too many cuts, too many parlor tricks to hold the viewer's attention every second, and the tendency is creeping over to regular Youtube - I hope it never creeps over to movies. I prefer longer sequences, but not too long, and a steady camera. It's still better than what my generation had with Facebook, because it removes the pressure to create content - and thus to create a false life - and the content it invites to create is healthier, like dances and showing collections or small bits of life.

Before Facebook, I remember people my age spent more time living, and a considerable component were videogames, even girls had them and played Singstar / Wii Sports / something else. When social media became the popular thing to use, everyone became glued to their phones, always taking pictures, feeling pressured to be constantly in the app and not miss anything, to optimize posting times and content to get the biggest number of likes. I hope we leave that dynamic behind our backs.

 

[Kwyjor]

Before Facebook, I remember people my age spent more time living, and a considerable component were videogames, even girls had them and played Singstar / Wii Sports / something else.

Facebook was around for a good while before the Wii came along.

When social media became the popular thing to use, everyone became glued to their phones, always taking pictures, feeling pressured to be constantly in the app and not miss anything, to optimize posting times and content to get the biggest number of likes.

Maybe a few highly-visible people do that, but I kind of doubt "everyone" does that. People can be glued to their phones for other reasons, like ordinary text messages.

 

[KitChan]

I don't waste my thoughts on tiktok

 

[nine0nine]

my only exposure to TikTok is YouTubers ridiculing it. I can only hope that they're really cherry-picking the absolute worst from the platform and that actually 99% of the 'content' on there is...not as retarded.

With TikTok and Twitter at the peak of popularity right now, it makes me worry about what comes next.

 

[Dark_Phoras]

Facebook was around for a good while before the Wii came along.

Maybe a few highly-visible people do that, but I kind of doubt "everyone" does that. People can be glued to their phones for other reasons, like ordinary text messages.

It wasn't popular in my context before 2009... why are you saying that my life isn't how it is?

It's a rethorical question, by the way.