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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by romwell on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:15AM (#28139360)
>I think it's very sad to see that the conclusion being drawn from this discussion is that it's unprovoked hostility.

I think it's sad that unprovoked hostility isn't recognized.

>I hope both parties in this discussion can disconnect the message from the person

The message rvz makes is about a person, namely, me. They said: "users like the parent comment are once again the prime product addicted under a para-social relationship with other addicted influencers".

That message makes a claim about me, and this is not acceptable.

>Having discussions with people we disagree with about topics we see differently is in my honest opinion the way we get out of the "us vs them" tendency to think.

You don't get to have opinions or disagreements on what goes on inside other people.

Someone calling me an addict to parasocial relationships is not an opinion we should be agreeing or disagreeing about. Unless specifically asked, by me, you don't get to opine on that.

Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by rvz on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:44AM (#28139984)
> The message rvz makes is about a person, namely, me. They said: "users like the parent comment are once again the prime product addicted under a para-social relationship with other addicted influencers".

> That message makes a claim about me, and this is not acceptable.

Some of the commenters here already have also suggested that TikTok is even more addictive than the other social networks; perhaps designed to be this way. How is it 'unacceptable' to suggest that users like yourself and influencers are also addicted as well since TikTok's recommendation algorithm is getting something right on its users over the rest of the other social networks?

So you are not addicted to TikTok then? (Despite you actively creating content on the platform and admitting it has '...made me life better already' and saying '...TikTok is the best thing to have happened to the Internet.' and describing to have a parasocial interaction with creators with hundreds of thousands of other followers)

> Someone calling me an addict to parasocial relationships is not an opinion we should be agreeing or disagreeing about. Unless specifically asked, by me, you don't get to opine on that.

Well you put what you do on TikTok for other people right here to comment and you yourself admitted what is described by definition as a parasocial interaction. If that doesn't fit the definition, I don't know what does.