This is the key reason why I do not have Instagram. People who call Tiktok “creepy” I think are genuinely just Western xenophobes that try to hide how disgusting Instagram and Snapchat are… and I have never used Tiktok other than links I receive from friends.
Yes but one can be less bad than the others. Considering TikTok is the only large (non-Western) social media today that gives a voice to Palestinians being actually genocided (unlike a lot of fake genocide narratives West manufactures), that makes a clear humane distinction. Facebook has documents that tell they want to actively target kids for social media consumption, and also propel rightwing politics a lot.
…and Vines (USA) was the original social media that introduced this format, if you are old enough to remember 6 second clips post Y2K. TikTok merely introduced an unrivaled recommendation algorithm on top of it, similar to what Spotify has for music streaming that gets a lot of praise.
There are privacy problems with most of them, but atleast I am able to check a TikTok link in browser that friends send me, without it ever harassing me to create account to “view more content” and get surveilled forever.
The dopamine conversation is a very long one. I have a way too simple and disconnected life. Recommend Huberman’s podcast on dopamine if you want to dive into the biochemistry.
I do not use it either, only open links friends send me occasionally. Being able to do that accountless in browser is great. Never bothered to make an account or install it.
I find all the social medias and most technology incredibly unhealthy and control it a lot. Even go as far as desaturating and making my screens anti-glare and brightness in accordance with room lighting. Never even purchased an AMOLED screen device due to its harmful effects on vision.
If you would have learnt anything in the past decade of social media, it is that these social media companies evolve within months. Telegram became a thing in 2013, Discord in 2015 and TikTok in 2016.
Vines would have simply increased the limit to 10-15 seconds and it would suddenly be used for journalism. TikTok was originally only 3 (not 30) seconds, now it has a varied time limit upto 10 minutes. Instagram and YouTube copied the TikTok/Vines format. Back then, Instagram also copied Snapchat’s Stories.
This is the key reason why I do not have Instagram. People who call Tiktok “creepy” I think are genuinely just Western xenophobes that try to hide how disgusting Instagram and Snapchat are… and I have never used Tiktok other than links I receive from friends.
Honestly they are all bad
Yes but one can be less bad than the others. Considering TikTok is the only large (non-Western) social media today that gives a voice to Palestinians being actually genocided (unlike a lot of fake genocide narratives West manufactures), that makes a clear humane distinction. Facebook has documents that tell they want to actively target kids for social media consumption, and also propel rightwing politics a lot.
Yeah I disagree. Ticktok content is way to short to have any meaningful impact. Its just dopamine over and over.
…and Vines (USA) was the original social media that introduced this format, if you are old enough to remember 6 second clips post Y2K. TikTok merely introduced an unrivaled recommendation algorithm on top of it, similar to what Spotify has for music streaming that gets a lot of praise.
There are privacy problems with most of them, but atleast I am able to check a TikTok link in browser that friends send me, without it ever harassing me to create account to “view more content” and get surveilled forever.
The dopamine conversation is a very long one. I have a way too simple and disconnected life. Recommend Huberman’s podcast on dopamine if you want to dive into the biochemistry.
Ah, I didn’t realize you could use Ticktok in the browser. Anyway I personally won’t use such platforms as they are way to addicting for me.
I do not use it either, only open links friends send me occasionally. Being able to do that accountless in browser is great. Never bothered to make an account or install it.
I find all the social medias and most technology incredibly unhealthy and control it a lot. Even go as far as desaturating and making my screens anti-glare and brightness in accordance with room lighting. Never even purchased an AMOLED screen device due to its harmful effects on vision.
Yeah and nobody in their right mind would ever try to use Vine for journalism. I’m confused why you think Tiktok is different.
If you would have learnt anything in the past decade of social media, it is that these social media companies evolve within months. Telegram became a thing in 2013, Discord in 2015 and TikTok in 2016.
Vines would have simply increased the limit to 10-15 seconds and it would suddenly be used for journalism. TikTok was originally only 3 (not 30) seconds, now it has a varied time limit upto 10 minutes. Instagram and YouTube copied the TikTok/Vines format. Back then, Instagram also copied Snapchat’s Stories.