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TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Post by meibo »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #310
kpennell wrote: post #4

I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places. That was fun for a while but it's just not that interesting after a while. I don't need to see more pretty pictures of women doing yoga. I don't…

I am curious about the "authentic" part. My wife shows me her favourite daily tiktoks and they all seem... Distilled and optimized and high density, well researched or naturally selected and evolved. Their "authenticity" seems almost desperately infused. Like twitter posts, optimized for engagement in 160chars (I find Washington post and random tatoo artist tweets have same medium-indiced optinized feel), after a few…

I think the thing that makes TikTok successful is that it's so uniquely tuned to whoever owns the account, and that it catches up with your personal interests and preferences very quickly. Your experience on TikTok is probably going to be a lot different to your wife's, at least this has been the case for us.

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Post by zippergz »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #310
kpennell wrote: post #4

I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places. That was fun for a while but it's just not that interesting after a while. I don't need to see more pretty pictures of women doing yoga. I don't…

I am curious about the "authentic" part. My wife shows me her favourite daily tiktoks and they all seem... Distilled and optimized and high density, well researched or naturally selected and evolved. Their "authenticity" seems almost desperately infused. Like twitter posts, optimized for engagement in 160chars (I find Washington post and random tatoo artist tweets have same medium-indiced optinized feel), after a few…

TikTok’s super power is tailoring the feed to the user, so this uncanny valley stuff is what your wife likes.

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Post by ejb999 »

agumonkey wrote: post #280
kpennell wrote: post #4

I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places. That was fun for a while but it's just not that interesting after a while. I don't need to see more pretty pictures of women doing yoga. I don't…

Was instagram genuine and organic at first ? it would be interesting to understand why IG became a faux marketing department, or if it quickly became so naturally. It's nice to see that tiktok doesn't devolve into a soul sucking fake life stream.

Yet, but it will.

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Post by wara23arish »

Jensson wrote: post #169
wara23arish wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone’s who’s read a lot of books is called well read. Someone who’s watched a bunch of shows is called a binge watcher. No matter what they’re called, reading specifically requires more active thinking than watching stuff. I wouldn’t say theyre the same.

Someone who read a lot of porn novels wouldn't be called well read, and someone who watch a bunch of college lectures wouldn't be called a binge watcher. What matters is the content, not the form of the content. It is just that simple content tend to choose easy to digest mediums, there is not much demand for low effort literature today since people just watch movies instead.

I totally agree with you.

Thats why i mentioned reading books also requires more “active” part of the brain rather than passively watching.

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Post by wara23arish »

wccrawford wrote: post #238
wara23arish wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone’s who’s read a lot of books is called well read. Someone who’s watched a bunch of shows is called a binge watcher. No matter what they’re called, reading specifically requires more active thinking than watching stuff. I wouldn’t say theyre the same.

I wouldn't call someone "well read" just for reading lots of books. I'd call them a "book worm". "Book worm" still has more positive connotations than "binge watcher" or "couch potato", but "well read" indicates that they read the classics and can talk about them intelligently.

Thanks for clarifying that up, wasn’t aware of book worm vs well read.

My main point really was that reading requires a more active effort than watching which is passive.

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Post by bogwog »

icoder wrote: post #282
jodrellblank wrote: post #16

" If people have the right to be tempted - and that's what free will is all about - the market is going to respond by supplying as much temptation as can be sold. " - Eliezer Yudkowsky, LessWrong, "Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization, March 2007 https://www.lesswrong.com/s/MH2b8NfWv22dBtrs8/p/Jq73Gozjsuhd...

More and more I fear this is our generation's 'smoking'

Both things use chemical reactions in the brain to create an addiction. The only difference is that smoking is regulated.

Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Post by altdataseller »

rvz wrote: post #101
kpennell wrote: post #4

I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places. That was fun for a while but it's just not that interesting after a while. I don't need to see more pretty pictures of women doing yoga. I don't…

> Instagram, by contrast, just feels so bland now. On to the next 'hit' then. The addictiveness of the drug 'Instagram™' has now worn off and has no effect on many long time 'users' of the drug since first introduced in the 2010s. A new 'digital crack cocaine' with a new innovative algorithmic black-box formula has been on the streets called 'TikTok™' amassing over 1B 'users' designed to glue you to your screen as mu…

One of the best times to start a new product or even promote an existing one (in consumer space) is during the infancy of a new social platform. Not only could there be opportunities to build products around TikTok but advertising on TikTok now could be akin to advertising on FB in 2005, cheap and plenty of chances to make good ROI

But u can’t take advantage of those opportunities unless u become an user first and study what works

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