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Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months agoHow?
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Source? Examples?
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
cbsnews.com/…/facebook-instagram-tiktok-snapchat-…
Should I keep finding relevant links for you or do you feel sufficiently foolish enough?
GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The comment was
Yes but UNLIKE Facebook and other platforms, Tik Tok is aimed at and consumed by minors specifically.
That study shows the opposite. YouTube benefited from minors over 2.5 times more than TikTok. And it shows every other platform is benefiting similar amounts. In fact, Snapchat has half the number of monthly users as tiktok but has almost identical ad revenue from minors. All the major social media platforms suck and are trying to take advantage of us, especially kids
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You just ignore anything you dont like. You’re not arguing in good faith.
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Again, this is not relevant to the original comment.
This is about how advertising was abused to target children.
It honestly sounds like you unjustifiably hate the platform and are throwing every nonsensical argument.
You’ve provided zero justification that tiktok as a company purposely targets children or designs their application specifically for children.
aniki@lemm.ee 8 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.
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unrelated to original comment
Please find two brain cells to rub together to understand the context of the original comment. You’ve gone on a complete nonsensical tangent akin to mental illness
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unrelated, and you provided links that tiktok has worked to prevent this behavior from advertised
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is about advertising to children within the platform and how tiktok intends to protect unethical advertising to children
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unrelated - this is just a business tiktok page
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Didn’t look very hard
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
No seriously – did you even try or did you just want to bloviate online to randos for… no reason at all?
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Again, this supports tiktok protecting children
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Nacktmull@lemmy.world 8 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 8 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 8 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.
Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No need to apologize, you’re the first person to actually calmly and willingly discuss the topic without completely dismissing being disagreed with.
I know you’re not the originally comment I was replying to, but you conveniently moved the goal posts. The context of the entire conversation is whether TikTok specifically should be shut down because it targets children for it’s own gain. You’re now arguing that social media in general has negative impact on society and children, which I agree with, but is completely skewing the conversation and was, in no way, the central point of the discussion.
So your opinion is that all social media platforms that deem to have negative affects on society should be shut down? Do you not see what’s wrong with that? You’re saying humans can’t decide whether or not they want to use social media. You should understand how absolutely absurd that is - that is a completely dystopian totalitarian dictatorship idea. It sounds like a chapter in 1984.