[tennis_sort]

I read "Dopamine Nation" recently and TikTok "ticks" so many negative boxes. Having lost hours to this ultimate time wasting app, there is no chance my kids are getting this on their phone.

As the book hypothesizes, poor Dopamine regulation and the increasingly prescribed medication to treat this are becoming the norm. Particularly among working classes who have poorer earning potential and engaging work.

Tiktok is literally mind numbing.

[klabb3]

Indeed. The crazy thing is that we’ve come not just full circle, but full spiral. I used to tell people that the internet is better than zapping on TV, and other consumption media, precisely because you are in control – nothing will happen without you choosing to.

All of the above is not just false today, but we have even more passive entertainment. TikTok has been promoted precisely because the only feature is zapping, for the vast majority of users.

[jaclaz]

As a side note, IMHO good ol' zapping (on TV) has been effectively killed a long time ago, when "modern" TV's came out.

Once changing channel was instantaneous, since several years it has a delay/lag that takes most of the fun out of it.

[treme]

chinese version severely limits usage to teens for something like 30m/day