• Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I'm in a pretty similar situation with my mom except she watches radlib ones. I visited her last weekend and we had wanted to go do something but she spent a couple hours watching Tiktoks when she told me she was getting ready and we ended up having to cancel. I can't say I've never binged videos like that but I realized what was happening after the first couple times and I don't watch them anymore because they basically turn the viewer into an addict from the first hit. That model of social media is dangerous.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I remember downloading TikTok a few years ago and realizing that I had spent an entire work day just flipping through video after video after video. By the end of the day my brain felt hazy. I deleted it shortly after, it was absolutely nuts

      • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Not really. I never actually got into Tik Tok but I was watching stuff on the :reddit-logo: app which is kind of similar with the new video player. When I realized what was happening I uninstalled it for a while. I reinstalled it later but now I only go on a couple of subreddits that don't have that kind of content. For something like Tik Tok where the only content is those short videos I would probably have to just uninstall it.