Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Literally proven to ruin attention span in children and essentially cause ADHD, can also easily cause depression by constantly seeing (usually) fake people flaunting their (usually) fake life and wealth.

  Not to mention the proliferation of insane conspiracy theories, absolute nonsense and usually harmful ‘advice’ of one kind or another, ‘being rich is the only thing that matters so here is a scam to show you how!’ of all kinds of flavors…

  Brain rot.

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  • far_university1990@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally proven to ruin attention span in children and essentially cause ADHD

    Please link source, interested in reading.

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Having recently been diagnosed with ADHD I’ve taken part in several classes on ADHD to learn more about it. And the consensus is that no external factors like that cause ADHD. However, I’m sure this topic of algorithm driven addictive short form videos for a very young audience is being studied more now than ever so who knows what the consensus on that will be in the future. Causing ADHD or not, I don’t think it’s healthy either way.

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      • ayaya@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah it can certainly cause problems, it’s just not ADHD.

        ADHD doesn’t even really mean short attention spans, it’s more of the inability to willingly direct attention. It’s the same way people incorrectly use “OCD” to mean liking things clean and/or orderly.

        I have ADHD and I’ve had times where I’ve done the same thing for 14 hours straight when my brain is sufficiently stimulated.

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      • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That doesn’t sound right to me. ADHD is a constellation of shared symptoms, grouped together and given a name for insurance and diagnostic purposes and because the treatment overlaps. The cause of those symptoms are obviously multifactorial, heavily correlated with both genetics and childhood stress. Bad news if your mom or dad didn’t ever stfu when you were a baby, hardwired you to be uncomfortable without constant external stimulation and validation.

        Schools at least where I live do a much better job of teaching kids to manage their emotions. And I hope parents of young children are doing a better job as well, seems like it to me, but I’m in a well off rural bubble.

        I imagine TikTok sets back any progress and I’m glad it’s banned. TikTok brain is a relatively thing. Human beings are meant to be able to focus intensely in one purposeful thing for several hours at a time and with practice anyone can learn to be highly productive and attentive if they can find a time and place to be free from distractions, and anyone can have a super memory if they set aside time and purposefully train their memory; memory is a product of focus.

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So, perhaps ‘essentially cause ADHD’ is a bit strong, but there are absolutely studies that show that exposure to / addiction to short form video content impair focus, cause/exacerbate attention deficits, cause/exacerbate difficulty maintaining attention, as well as impair the ability to study and perform academically, worsen overall mental health etc.

      Oh, and short form video content is also found to be addictive as well.

      www.tandfonline.com/doi/…/0144929X.2022.2151512

      www.cell.com/heliyon/…/S2405-8440(24)06377-1

      www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9127725/

      In summary, brain rot.

      Theres also studies which show, hilariously, that a good amount of mental health ‘advice’ on such short form content platforms is garbage.

      journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/…/07067437221082854

      And to round it out, heres a study on negative body image perception and self objectification amongst girls/women by short form content:

      www.sciencedirect.com/…/S1740144523000876?via%3Di…

      In fairness, this study does find that negative self perception and self objectification increase with viewing either short or long form video content or images featuring ‘ideal’ women, as this sort of thing has been long studied before ‘social media’ even existed (TV, Magazines, Movies, etc).

      So, while objectification and body image problems from media exposure are not new, the proliferation and exposure amount are increased dramatically in the age of widespread social media.

      I would be willing to bet that had a similar study as this one been done on boys/men it would show similar results.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    can also easily cause depression by constantly seeing (usually) fake people flaunting their (usually) fake life and wealth

    That’s a problem with many social media platforms and the “influencer” culture they host. Instagram has been particularly criticised for this.

    These heavily curated content posted on these platforms does not reflect the warts and all reality of real life. People who get too engrossed in it can quickly start to feel their lives are inadequate.

    I’m not sure what the solution is for this, other than trying to better regulate the algorithms used by these platforms.

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, better regulation of algorithms is not a thing that is going to happen.

      Assuming you could actually specify this kind of content… which you probably can with some degree from the standpoint of the engineers behind the things… theres basically no way to ban or limit this kind of content in a law.

      1: Giant Freedom of Speech based opposition. To some extent, yeah if you penalize it, well you are limiting free speech and artistic expression, is what will be claimed.

      2: Without literally having access to the way the algorithm works, it’d be a massive tome of a law to try to pass. And also software changes, so … you can probably rewrite your way around a specific way to limit this kind of content.

      I don’t know. Maybe you could pass a law that mandates if your platform has x many users or daily views, you must provide to the user far, far more in depth means to manage their own content they are thrown up.

      Or perhaps you could have some kind of FAA type entity created, which is supposed to be deeply involved in the behind the scenes aspects of basically standard operation of the social media industry, as the FAA is with aircraft manufacture/airspace/airports.

      Of course the counter point to that is well just look at the FAA and Boeing. Regulatory capture is a thing.

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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Coming to lemmy has made me have more negative views of how much I use and should be using Linux.

      I only have it on one device atm…

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  • Woozythebear@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You literally are posting on a site where every 3rd post is defending genocide…

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ???

      I must not be part of the same lemmy communities as you?

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      • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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