Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 5 weeks agoYes 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 5 weeks ago
You can replace TikTok with any social media platform. That’s why this argument is illogical in that it blames TikTok.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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).
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
It can be an issue with the people starting these challenges while also being an issue with the way tiktok works with sharing these copycat videos on the platforms algorithm.
I don’t think “omg tiktok bad” but in the case of these dumb challenges, it is one of the few things I can see people actually pointing at when saying tiktok is bad, rather than “but china.”
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks 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.