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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by twoquestions on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:02PM (#28134477)
> As a recent grad, so many of my friends are heavily invested in TikTok and have been since quarantine began, some of them for a bit before. The amount of time they spend there is absurd. Consuming 30 second content for three hours can't be good for concentration, right? It helps add to the 'always online' mindset that has grown more popular with social media and smart phones.

How do they keep on it for 3 hours?! I've doomscrolled FB quite a bit, but I find even the less doomy stuff on TikTok much more exhausting to watch, like one of those Japanese game shows or shouty YouTube video game meme channels. I can maybe do 10 minutes at most until I need to put the phone down.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by CyberFoxar on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:14AM (#28140587)
To be frank, I've experienced those "scroll for 3 hours through short-length content" on youtube, especially with shorts.

You just kind of... zone out. Watch, click, watch, click, heart, watch... The action is repetitive, but the content isn't. I've definetly felt like I was on a Netflix binge, there's so little friction, time just flies.

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