‘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.
I know everyone wants to rile against the next generations stuff, people said the same shit about the internet, and reddit, and Twitter, now tiktok.
But this article is just regurgitating old articles from other places and throwing tiktok in there because they know everyone over 25 gets riled up just reading the name tik tok.
Are you suggesting that anything about the internet hasn’t reduced attention spans?
Especially as it’s becoming more accessible and common for younger people to get more exposure during key points in brain development.
It goes beyond simple accessibility and engagement, if young people are not participating in these social medias it can become harder to connect with your peers - so you’re almost socially punished for not embracing and participating in brain rot (all social media, not just Tik Tok).
No. I’m saying that this is rage bait and been said about everything from rock music to pokemon.
I didn’t click on any of the white papers linked inside the news article either, who knows what those Chinese university students put it there…
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I’m 25 and I’m surprised by how many people I know that are addicted to TikTok and YouTube shorts
Bruh, they said it about TV, radio, magazines, even printed books.
There was a time when older generations literally said that the printing press was going to ruin the next generations brains because they’d be reading all the time.
This has been happening for centuries.
My almost 50 year old officemate watches this shit all day long. It 100% affects her negatively in a multitude of ways, including her attending span. It’s not just the kiddos.
Exactly. My gf can’t sit and do anything. She always had to be on phone watching shit vids.
Can’t tell me what she’s watched or what she’s looking for. It’s just overloaded brain fart
Yep boomer family does this all day and nothing else.
The part about tiktok and youtube shorts that feels different to me is the short form videos giving a quick little hit of enjoyment, and the drive to view more short form is strong. I absolutely hate short form, but have found myself checking youtube for some new little short video.
That type of conditional feels detrimental to me.
Odysee doesn’t have that, it feels nice. I wish all my favorite YouTube channels were synced there.
Odysee has videos? I’ve been using it for… 3D printing.
This is definitely a thing. The amount of people claiming to have ADHD now is out of control when in reality they can’t not pick up their phone for a dopamine hit every five seconds. This is a lot different than books and media of the past.
There’s almost never a time I’m in public anymore without people glued to their phones playing Tik Toks on speaker and acting like no one exists, or using their phones in a movie theatre etc etc. it’s a problem. Not to mention the other anti-social behavioural aspects I’m seeing young kids exhibit.
Its weird but I actually use videos as a last resort. I hate having to sit through a 10 minute video to find out how to do a 2 minute task.
Videos are good for “reading” long books that you’ll probably never finish otherwise or seeing how to do an intricate task where you almost need to do it alongside them in order to do it properly. I can’t invest in short videos like that exemplified by tiktok (like Peter’s 6 second interview in the millenials episode; I guess thats more of a vine than titok…)
100% agree, if those TikTok videos, deliver the same bit of valuable info that you are looking for compared to a 10 min or longer video filled with whatever Sponsorblock blocks I fail to see how shorts media is the culprit here.
Joke’s on you, I don’t have kids!
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!
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.
Vsauce made a video about attention spans getting shorter when it’s more so humans just get bored easily. If TikTok didn’t exist we would just find other means to cure our boredom. It was rock and roll music, comic books, then TVs, and now TikTok is the current generation thing to hate. It’s all about moderation.
True. It can be hard to moderate consumption without a fully disciplined prefrontal cortex.
How do we measure the extent to which addiction to an opiod is the addict’s fault vs the manufacturer & marketers of said opiod?
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What if I flick my nipple for a sec then take a shit. Do I need to flick my nipple for a few hours before I shit or my attention span is ruined?
