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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by sanderjd on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:49AM (#43717732)
The author of this blog wrote a whole freaking book about exactly this!

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. How is this like 95% of the comments here, as if Haidt didn't write an incredibly well known book about how all of this is bad!

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by lolinder on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:51AM (#43717765)
Most people here didn't even follow the link and are just responding to the title. They don't know who wrote the piece, much less what it actually says.
Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by everyone on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:55AM (#43717832)
They've also been scrolling too much.. Their attention span cant handle it lol.

Their propensity for scrolling has degraded their ability to criticize it.

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by cinntaile on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:53AM (#43717787)
I don't get what you are trying to say? Can't people share their experiences?
Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by lolinder on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:05AM (#43717985)
This comment isn't so bad, but there were a bunch of comments earlier that were implying or stating outright that the author of TFA was targeting TikTok specifically for political reasons, which is clearly nonsense if you have even a passing familiarity with Haidt's body of work.

OP followed a similar pattern by starting with "please add YouTube to the list", but they did at least elaborate and didn't imply that TikTok was being targeted unfairly.

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by sanderjd on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:06AM (#43717989)
You're totally right. I wouldn't have written what I wrote, if I had seen this comment before seeing the ten thousand other comments on this page that just say "whatabout {other social media app}". Not fair to the author of this comment who was just sharing an experience. Too late to delete it now, so I just have to live with my shame :)
Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by Apocryphon on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:50AM (#43717752)
Because even though he is reposted here every few months not everyone has deigned to actually read any of his stuff
Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by sanderjd on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:07AM (#43718020)
That's fine, but if you're going to post "now do X" in response to a criticism of Y, it behooves you to understand whether the author might have already opined on X.