'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span

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• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know everyone wants to rile against the next generations stuff, people said the same shit about the internet, and reddit, and Twitter, now tiktok.

  But this article is just regurgitating old articles from other places and throwing tiktok in there because they know everyone over 25 gets riled up just reading the name tik tok.

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  • ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you suggesting that anything about the internet hasn’t reduced attention spans?

    Especially as it’s becoming more accessible and common for younger people to get more exposure during key points in brain development.

    It goes beyond simple accessibility and engagement, if young people are not participating in these social media’s it can become harder to connect with your peers - so you’re almost socially punished for not embracing and participating in brain rot (all social media, not just Tik Tok).

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    • Kikkertje@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have been trying to work on my attention span ever since quitting Reddit. There’s this great book I’m reading, it has everything in it that I love, I would have been pulled in if this was 20 years ago (yeah, I’m old). But I find I can only handle about 5 minutes or so before I feel that urge for “fresh” information. It sucks!

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No. I’m saying that this is rage bait and been said about everything from rock music to pokemon.

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  • SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m 25 and I’m surprised by how many people I know that are addicted to TikTok and YouTube shorts

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• Geek_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The part about tiktok and youtube shorts that feels different to me is the short form videos giving a quick little hit of enjoyment, and the drive to view more short form is strong. I absolutely hate short form, but have found myself checking youtube for some new little short video.

  That type of conditional feels detrimental to me.

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  • specfreq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Odysee doesn’t have that, it feels nice. I wish all my favorite YouTube channels were synced there.

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• isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Title got that “ok boomer” vibe to it

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  • blindjezebel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure we should have a name for the phenomenon of how consuming shortform videos (at the frequency and volume as platforms like tiktok or instagram want us to) affects how our brain decides to process info in all other facets of our life.

    Idk, like, Doomscrolling Brain sounds like a fad because, imo, not everyone uses the word doomscrolling. Tiktok is pretty much the face of endless scrolling short form vids, and everybody knows what it is. Calling it tiktok brain also puts the onus on the platform subconsciously affecting how we consume information anywhere else.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My generation was told violent video games will cause me to become a inhumane murder machine.

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• kite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My almost 50 year old officemate watches this shit all day long. It 100% affects her negatively in a multitude of ways, including her attending span. It’s not just the kiddos.

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  • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Exactly. My gf can’t sit and do anything. She always had to be on phone watching shit vids.

    Can’t tell me what she’s watched or what she’s looking for. It’s just overloaded brain fart

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  • TwoGems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep boomer family does this all day and nothing else.

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• DarkWasp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is definitely a thing. The amount of people claiming to have ADHD now is out of control when in reality they can’t not pick up their phone for a dopamine hit every five seconds. This is a lot different than books and media of the past.

  There’s almost never a time I’m in public anymore without people glued to their phones playing Tik Toks on speaker and acting like no one exists, or using their phones in a movie theatre etc etc. it’s a problem.

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• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you live on Earth and aren’t a member of the owner class, you’re almost certainly irrevocably fucked.

  Just enjoy yourself until the infrastructure breaks and the entertaining toys with it.

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  • blindjezebel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, you’re right, my mistake.

      TikTok is a separate issue from humanity’s self-imposed apocalypse. Whether civilization collapses or not in the short to medium term, a fleshed out age appropriateness policy for the TikTok social media platform still needs to be established and adopted, whether TikTok continues to exist or not.

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its weird but I actually use videos as a last resort. I hate having to sit through a 10 minute video to find out how to do a 2 minute task.

  Videos are good for “reading” long books that you’ll probably never finish otherwise or seeing how to do an intricate task where you almost need to do it alongside them in order to do it properly. I can’t invest in short videos like that exemplified by tiktok (like Peter’s 6 second interview in the millenials episode; I guess thats more of a vine than titok…)

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  • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    100% agree, if those TikTok videos, deliver the same bit of valuable info that you are looking for compared to a 10 min or longer video filled with whatever Sponsorblock blocks I fail to see how shorts media is the culprit here.

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  • jmp242@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not weird. I generally hate videos for stuff that I just need some basic reference on. Where I find them useful is for visual stuff (obviously) that I’m less familiar with. For instance, if I need to twiddle with Windows Server 2022 to do something, I find text by far the best, because I do not need to see how to click on the start menu.

    If I need to replace the AVR on a portable generator, the video is very helpful.

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  • Neirin_D@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same. I prefer reading to watching videos since it’s easier to scroll to the information I need.

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• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Joke’s on you, I don’t have kids!

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• UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Vsauce made a video about attention spans getting shorter when it’s more so humans just get bored easily. If TikTok didn’t exist we would just find other means to cure our boredom. It was rock and roll music, comic books, then TVs, and now TikTok is the current generation thing to hate. It’s all about moderation.

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  • blindjezebel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True. It can be hard to moderate consumption without a fully disciplined prefrontal cortex.

    How do we measure the extent to which addiction to an opiod is the addict’s fault vs the manufacturer & marketers of said opiod?

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• Stinkywinks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What if I flick my nipple for a sec then take a shit. Do I need to flick my nipple for a few hours before I shit or my attention span is ruined?

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  • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    what the fuck?

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I heard this same argument about certain media reducing attention spans in fear mongering news releases back in the 90’s and that, like this likely is, was bullshit.

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