Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor

Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor by m0xte on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:27AM (#23859957)

Yeah you're right but staring at 30 second clips of better lives than your selected by algorithm to bias your mind in some way to perpetuate either the existence of the platform or the product being sold is part of the downward spiral. At some point it becomes compulsion rather than choice. That's mental slavery by shitting in your head and I will judge that with extreme prejudice.

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Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor by patrickaljord on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:34AM (#23860026)

> Yeah you're right but staring at 30 second clips of better lives

That's instagram. TikTok is about average people having normal lives doing funny skits, often making fun of their own hardship rather than bragging about how they're living the high life as in other social medias.

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Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor by m0xte on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:37AM (#23860048)

That's your bubble. I've seen other people's and it's not. Instagram is worse I agree.

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Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor by patrickaljord on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:43AM (#23860129)

There are people flexing indeed and it shows up in my bubble too but I would say average people doing funny skits is what defines TikTok and what made it so appealing to many and still makes up the biggest part of TikTok content.

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Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor by scrollaway on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:44AM (#23860146)

So for what it's worth I deeply agree with your edit of your above post. I just dislike putting the onus on the users themselves rather than the platform.

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