Yeah, could have been called “kids are learning how circuits work thanks to TikTok trend” and suddenly the story has a whole other meaning
Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout
Ryick@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
If this were an unbiased and honest article; then it would read “Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for social clout.” The subtle message, in this article, is TikTok = bad, which is illogical because events such as this will occur regardless of platform or even lack of a platform. It will ALWAYS happen. The question is how to mitigate these events as much as possible, because it’s impossible to completely eradicate “kids doing X for social clout.” It’s a part of learning and being human.
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Yes but without tik tok this is a kid or two being stupid and charged a couple hundred at one school. I think we had 3 kids today at school destroy their laptops.
Ryick@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
You can replace TikTok with any social media platform. That’s why this argument is illogical in that it blames TikTok.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 hours ago
But it’s not happening on any social media platform. These sorts of “challenges” and trends seem to happen almost exclusively on TikTok, for whatever reason.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I don’t remember Friendster causing mayhem like this.
Lemmy seems to not be spreading challenges either.
You have a point, but TikTok has a unique power.
Ryick@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
If it had happened on Friendster; then it would have been because of the specific user(s) creating and posting such content, not because of the platform. To say platform = bad because a user or users post negatively affecting content is a sweeping generalization which does not reflect reality, meaning that the negative connotation of TikTok = bad is still incorrect. The users which created and posted such content, in this case, are to blame.
If students see such content on social media; then the first thought should not be: platform bad; it should be: who posted it, and for what reason(s).