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by MandieD 772 days ago
I cannot find it or remember who wrote it, but learning to recognize when things are out to get you (his example was Facebook). Nearly an hour into my first encounter with TikTok, memories of that post made me realize that probably needed to be my last encounter with TikTok.
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Curious to read this when you think of it.
The Facebook-specific, rather long one: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/against-facebook/

The more compact one that gives a good mental model for deciding how to engage with something that seems like might be a trap (or obviously is a trap, but you have to engage with it, anyway): https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/out-to-get-you/