Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research
by xvector on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:40PM
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TikTok shows you precisely what you want to see, whether it's simple and funny staged videos or something more intellectually engaging.
Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research
by core-e on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:39PM
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Does it show you precisely what you want to see? Or just what you're most likely to engage with? I feel like there's an important distinction there.
Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research
by xvector on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:12PM
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The former, which is why people use it. It shows you what you want to see and will genuinely enjoy seeing.
That is why TikTok is more popular than platforms that only focus on engagement, because those platforms will show content that you will engage with even if it's in frustration.
Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research
by will4274 on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:34AM
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So if I want to see you naked, TikTok will show me it?
It's disappointing to see folks in hacker news regurgitate TikTok marketing material as fact credulously. No service could show you precisely what you want to see. TikTok does it's best - but e.g. if I want to see no staged video, TikTok can't enforce this, because TikTok doesn't know.
It seems like mostly staged videos and folks with barely informed political rants to me.