Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by barbazoo on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:47AM
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I'm still in the phase where I pick up my phone and then don't really know what to do with it. Mobile games are mostly garbage I found. Hopefully sometime soon my brain will internalize the fact that the phone doesn't provide a torrent of hormones anymore and let me not pick it up in the first place.
One thing I'm trying is to put books in places I would previously do my doomscrolling in, coffee table by the couch for instance. Sometimes I pick up the book instead of the phone, read a page or 5 and then go do something else. Small win, yay me.
The thing I have to learn is that the phone is a tool, not a way to spend time because I don't know what else to do, at least not the default way.
To anyone working on maximizing user engagement, think about what you're doing to all of us, please.
One thing I'm trying is to put books in places I would previously do my doomscrolling in, coffee table by the couch for instance. Sometimes I pick up the book instead of the phone, read a page or 5 and then go do something else. Small win, yay me.
The thing I have to learn is that the phone is a tool, not a way to spend time because I don't know what else to do, at least not the default way.
To anyone working on maximizing user engagement, think about what you're doing to all of us, please.