How?
Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Nacktmull@lemmy.world 2 months agoYes but unlike Facebook and other platforms, Tik Tok is aimed at and consumed by minors specifically.
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nacktmull@lemmy.world 2 months ago
By design. The format (short video clips) and the optimization for being used on phones (not computers) makes it attractive for kids.
[businessinsider.com/tiktok-children-users-data-pr…](TikTok reportedly has 18 million users who are 14 or younger, renewing concerns for children’s safety)
[www.nytimes.com/…/tiktok-underage-users-ftc.html](A Third of TikTok’s U.S. Users May Be 14 or Under, Raising Safety Questions)
[cnbc.com/…/tiktok-usage-topped-instagram-in-2021-…](63% of Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 used TikTok on a weekly basis)
[digitalmusicnews.com/…/tiktok-users-mostly-childr…](Report Estimates One-Third of TikTok Users Are Children Age 14 and Under)
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kids using tiktok and tiktok specifically targeting children to use their platform are distinctly different. Just because kids use tiktok doesn’t mean it’s because they were lured there. Those metrics identify that tiktok is popular.
I appreciate your opinion, but short video clips on Mobile devices are nothing inherent to children. Now if tiktok was giving you pokemon for signing up or posting of their platform, then there’d be a valid argument
Getting back to the original context - the argument that Tiktok should be shut down because “it’s short videos on mobile platforms that’s popular among teens” is lunacy. Everyone is throwing shade at me and not realizing how absurd their argument is.
I’m not acting in bad faith either. I did care about the date of tiktok, but I’m seeing a trend of vilification without proper logical discourse. It’s disconcerting to say the least.
Nacktmull@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I respect your opinion. However, I think you are missing the central point. Which -in my opinion- is that a social media platform that turns out to have extremely negative effects on society and especially kids, should get shut down. If it happens with intent or without is not particularly relevant as far as I see it. I apologize if my initial comments were phrased in any misleading way, I am not a native speaker so i sometimes miss the finer nuance of a formulation.
aniki@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Advertising.
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Source? Examples?
aniki@lemm.ee 2 months ago
cbsnews.com/…/facebook-instagram-tiktok-snapchat-…
Should I keep finding relevant links for you or do you feel sufficiently foolish enough?
aniki@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You just ignore anything you dont like. You’re not arguing in good faith.
aniki@lemm.ee 2 months ago
gizmodo.com/tiktok-slammed-in-europe-over-hidden-…
Are you a GOP candidate? You seriously couldn’t find any of these links?? I didn’t even use Google.
aniki@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Didn’t look very hard
aniki@lemm.ee 2 months ago
No seriously – did you even try or did you just want to bloviate online to randos for… no reason at all?
StevenSaus@midwest.social 2 months ago
Unlike? I think you mean they’re JEALOUS of TikTok’s appeal to minors…
Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 months ago
I think people forget that Meta owns Instagram which is known to have a very young user base.
They are even currently Suing the FTC because they want to monetize minors more
Nacktmull@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What I mean is that Facebook for example is aimed at and consumed by older adults in the first place. Young people in fact see it as a boomer platform.
ccdfa@lemm.ee 2 months ago
When I was a kid and Facebook was new, I remember everyone wanting an account. The way I see it, Facebook just kept those users who wanted it when it was new. Who’s to say that the same won’t be true of TikTok later?
Nacktmull@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Who knows but we are talking about the negative effects TikTok has on society right now.