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If you curate your feed, TikTok offers plenty of useful content, way beyond what you could find on 2000's cable tv, or anywhere else even today.

Piggy backing to comment on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40559854

How can tech people misunderstand social media ML algorithms so badly....gee, I wonder what could cause that.



That doesn’t refute parent‘s point. It’s still a barrage of different ideas, opinions, or jokes, that’s hitting your brain in very short intervals. You don’t even get to deeply interact with one of the concepts before you’re being shown the next one. Even though you might feel you only watch quality content, that’s only the dopamine addiction speaking. If you don’t believe me, try reading a book for an hour straight, without touching your phone or doing something else. Most people that using social media regularly will struggle doing this.


> Even though you might feel you only watch quality content, that’s only the dopamine addiction speaking.

Did you learn what is happening inside my mind, in fact, by reading a book, or via some more esoteric approach?




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