[kaba0]

Instagram also has a very good/addictive algorithm, for what it’s worth.

I think it is more just network effect in play here - I feel that every generation has their de facto social media platform — the “boomers” have facebook, then comes instagram, and among the youngest generations is tiktok the biggest.

Though I don’t have hard data on that, just anecdotal evidence.

[yieldcrv]

TikTok's is far more addictive and engaging. instagram content is mostly just reposted TikTok for millennials to see two weeks later. Pause and check out the same content on TikTok and you'll see far more engagement and be sucked into the rabbit hole just for watching.

[blensor]

That's the right term, it's addictive but I wouldn't say it's engaging.

Every time I am uninstalling TikTok my life feels better, more relaxed.

Moving to my new phone I've again left it uninstalled, now for 2 months and I hope I can keep it that way

[kuschkufan]

So you imply millennials usually are on Instagram. This mirrors another comment here that; Gen Z is on TikTok and boomers are on Facebook - seems likely, people keep to their age group mostly.

So if that were the case and Instagram only gets content reposted from Tiktok, it would mean that millenials do not produce content. But of course they do.

[yieldcrv]

> do not produce content

that would be an interesting observation if I hadn't written

> is mostly just

words matters

[acuozzo]

Teens often don't want to mingle with their parents/adults online, so they find their own place and many continue using it when they become adults.