TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)

Re:TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental ... by woweoe on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:07PM (#32308115)

I think that the biggest difference with the current situation is the 24/7 reach. You were forced to unplug from the internet for much of the day during your generation simply because there was no way to reach the internet, but nowadays you are on the internet for everything and you can't even unplug to study, work or contact anyone. Anyone who is on TikTok uses it all their waking time.

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Re:TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental ... by sam0x17 on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:46PM (#32311161)

Not true. I had a laptop starting at age 12 and unfettered 24/7 access, which I'd often use to play around with PHP and things until 3 AM :D

If I didn't have that formative experience of learning to time-manage and manage my own little technology addictions before going to college, college would have been really rough.

And this was very early 2000s like 2004

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