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Re:TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by surgical_fire on Saturday May 13, 2023 @09:59PM (#35934666)
Out of curiosity, why haven't she stopped using TikTok? It's an honest question.

Many years ago, I tried using Facebook. I few months later I decided it was causing distress, as political discussion among people I knew was reducing my respect for friends and acquaintances. My next logical action was to completely abandon Facebook. I didn't even bother to delete my account, I just removed the app and never browsed it again.

I always wonder why people keep using apps that distress them.

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Re:TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by erulabs on Saturday May 13, 2023 @10:08PM (#35934711)
She actually is using it less because of this.

I showed her this thread and her response was that these sudden and intense emotional videos hidden among the dozens of happy ones is actually why she doesn’t use is as much as she would otherwise.

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Re:TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by SturgeonsLaw on Saturday May 13, 2023 @11:44PM (#35935156)
For the same reason people inject another hit of heroin despite the fact that they know it's killing them. Never underestimate the power of the dopaminergic reward pathways in governing maladaptive behaviour.
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