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Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research by jerojero on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:49PM (#28547363)
Maybe because the TikTok algorithm is feeding you what you value. Whereas for people with different values, maybe people with certain insecurities that are in the process of change (mainly adolescents) they might be drawn to people that have what they lack just like any other social media platform.

TikTok is incredible, in my opinion, it really is the best content-delivery platform... but that is actually quite dangerous because what people want to see is not necessarily what they should see. It's important for people to have broad perspectives and I don't think TikTok addresses that so appropriately.

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Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research by Saptarishi on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:43AM (#28548457)
TikTok feeding us what we apparently value is its biggest danger.

When people out of mere curiosity watch something biased/misrepresented/discriminatory/extreme and interact with that content, irrespective of whether all their opinions at that moment of time are the same as that of the content they watched, the algorithm will aggressively push similar content onto you, and there will definitely be a few who fall into "the doom".

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Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research by xvector on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:10PM (#28555922)
Have you actually used the app? This is absolutely not how it works. You aren't shoved down rabbit holes like with YouTube.
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