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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by Plyphon_ on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:32AM (#33529579)
Agreed.

They said that about radio. They said that about TV. They said that about computers. They said that about dumbphones. They said that about smartphones. They're now saying that about apps.

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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by marginalia_nu on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:54AM (#33530267)
They said it about huffing paint thinner too, to be fair.
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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by jryhjythtr on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:07AM (#33530379)
Why were "they" wrong? Is it because the issues of each successive development in mass media made those of the previous iteration look quaint? It's easy to look back on (for example) TV as a harmless diversion, but it was a radical development in the dissemination of visual information.
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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by gergov on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:18AM (#33530493)
Also this is a funny argument. If these things are truly making people dumber but the change is happening on a generational level, then a dumber generation would not realize that it is dumber than the previous one.

It's also further muddied by other changes - like changes in education in the past 50 years - which makes the phenomenon harder to isolate and to judge.

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