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Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by lupusreal on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @06:18AM (#41577922)
My concern with tiktok is that it rots your brain like television, but far more effectively because it's rapid fire content constantly tuned to the individual user to keep them hooked on it. It's an instant gratification machine, effectively a drug, that fries people's attention spans. It has people spending hours a day consuming vapid short-form nonsense, and alters their psyche to make them less effective in other endeavors even when they aren't distracted by the app (particularly school, since it hits children particularly hard.)

The medium is the message.

Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by account42 on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @07:08AM (#41578221)
This is a very valid concern but it also applies to many "western" social media and entertainment channels.
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon by lupusreal on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:33AM (#41579514)
I have the same concern with those western apps too.