What happens to kids' brains when they binge TikTok's endless stream of bite-sized videos?

‘TikTok brain’ may be coming for your kid’s attention span::Emerging research suggests that TikTok’s rapid-fire short videos are affecting the attention spans of its younger users, making it harder for them to engage in activities that require more sustained attention.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1511·
    1 year ago

    If you live on Earth and aren’t a member of the owner class, you’re almost certainly irrevocably fucked. Hell, those asshole’s bunkers probably won’t even be sufficient to protect them, given how far climate change is outpacing projections.

    Just enjoy yourself until the infrastructure breaks and the entertaining toys/social opiates with it.

    If you want to make a last stand to save the Earth and, in the US at least representative democracy, you’d need a time machine to your last reasonable chance half a century ago.

    TikTok being unhealthy for developing minds is just a hilarious hill to die on in 2023. Your body is filled with toxic forever chemicals from sociopathic, greedy, all powerful capitalist industry right fucking now. Talk about complaining about the arrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic…

    https://www.nrdc.org/stories/forever-chemicals-called-pfas-show-your-food-clothes-and-home

    But hey, sorry for being a downer. For what it’s worth, for one shining moment in time, humanity created a lot of value for shareholders!

      • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes, you’re right, my mistake.

        TikTok is a separate issue from humanity’s self-imposed apocalypse. Whether civilization collapses or not in the short to medium term, a fleshed out age appropriateness policy for the TikTok social media platform still needs to be established and adopted, whether TikTok continues to exist or not.