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'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span (theweek.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They probably said this about disco and sliced bread too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sliced bread, that's it, grab your torches and forks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Who eats sliced bread with a fork?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pitchforks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's weird to eat bread with pitchforks too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you eat your french toast?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Like Winnie the Pooh! With my bare hands slathered in honey!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

And reading too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Those weren't designed to be addicting the way platforms like TikTok are

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Didn't read, sorry. Reddit brain made my brain work not so good.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean yeah we've known this for a while now but the phrasing makes it sound deliberately panic inducing

[–] pixeled 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So would you say that is unjust, seeing the massive effects and repercussions of this on society as a whole? As a father of a young girl I'm very happy to see more attention on this by news media.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

But as your father it's your responsibility to limit her screen time. TikTok brain isn't "coming for your kids" you're enabling it.

People act like taking away Internet is abuse and it's weird

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edx9D2yaOGs

I dare you to watch this entire video

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=Edx9D2yaOGs

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Hasn't it already?

You guys try talking to people online outside the Fediverse (and even here sometimes)? It's like Idiocracy is happening IRL.

[–] GeneralEmergency 6 points 2 years ago

"Everyone else has killed their attention span apart from me"

I say as I scroll past several posts without a through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you're looking that good, you don't have to know anything.