This drama is getting tiresome. It’s just an app, and many Americans—at least those who are old enough to vote—don’t actually care that much about it. A 2023 Pew Research Center survey found that TikTok’s popularity was second only to YouTube among teenagers, but it’s far from the country’s most popular social-media app overall, despite its salience as a conversational stand-in for “internet culture” or “annoying thing that young people like.” “It’s a lot of fanfare and suspense over an app that, well, just isn’t all that important,” Kate Lindsay wrote in The Atlantic in January, pointing out that only a third of U.S. adults interviewed for another Pew survey said they’d ever used it. (More of these people say they use Pinterest!) Among young adults, she added, Snapchat and Instagram are more popular.
Hearing a kid literally say ’ can we watch tiktoks for bedtime tonight’ was an eye opener…literal brain rot
In short…you do not want your kid consuming fast paced trash. Yt shorts are just as pathetic. It does nothing positive, and destroys their brain and accustoms them to very short attention spans and instant gratification that isn’t possible in real life.
They are all bad and should be treated as such
While you do get my upvote consider this:
Encyclopedia Brittanica could have been said to be for people who didn’t have the attention span to read broadsheets and history books.
Obviously Brittanica was information while TikTok is lolcats and requires no reading skills but am curious to hear other not-so-obvious reasons why it is not a fair comparison.
Encyclopedia Brittanica wasn’t designed to be addicting and offer misinformation for one.
Fair call.