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by rektide 1286 days ago
Piss weak posting.

> Why would the kid want to be canoeing with boring people when there was a whole world of smart, interesting, beautiful people in 30-second, filtered, buzzing, sing-song videos that snap-crackle-and-pop and make all your senses light up?! ...

> TikTok? No way!

> These apps themselves are weaponized to the point adults have trouble putting them down. They hire marketing geniuses and psychologists to design the games and user experience in such a way that it becomes physically addictive. We know this already!

Author thinks they are way smart & has all the answers & has already fore-decided the villian and all problems are definitely the pre-determined villian and the so smart author obviously knows better.

Gross article from gross person. Thankfully now flagged.

There may be some real material here perhaps but the constant cock-sure sermonizing attitude & willingness to lay blame at probably fairly side-show factors as the source of all problems... it's embarassingly awful.