[AlanYx]

Amen. I don't even really understand why most of the commentary surrounding this potential acquisition refers to TikTok as a social network.

TikTok is much closer to a video playback/sharing platform (somewhere between YouTube and Vine) than a social communication platform. Direct messaging isn't even enabled by default, and even in direct messaging you're very limited in what you can send. You can't even send images unless they're already in the TikTok universe.

It just doesn't seem to be any more of a social network than YouTube is. I can perhaps see some possible value in Microsoft acquiring a fulsome social network of some kind, but a faddish YouTube-like platform? It's baffling.