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TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by n8cpdx »

OJFord wrote: post #321

I am honestly stunned that so many people apparently use both HN & TikTok. What does it offer you? Why isn't it the reserve of teens and younger that I thought it was? (I'm in my twenties, it's not news to me that I'm out of touch with the modal person my age/younger, but I'm not totally obliviously removed by generations or anything, and seemingly it's not just used by people my age/younger anyway.)

It’s actually quite similar to HN in the scope and breadth of educational/informational content:

- Charlie Puth on how he created the sound for a recent song: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1k6eHS/

- Walkthrough of how the iconic sound of “Blackout” was created: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1kr4t3/

- A window into the world of Mormon childhoods (TV Guardian): https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1hTPP7/

- speed walking is an Olympic sport TIL: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1kgbpH/

- Furby internals: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1kq2ut/

- GameCube trivia: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1kP4dG/

- Plane auto land demo (very cool): https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1kq8Xj/

- The heart attack grill (exists): https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1kXRfo/

- Japanese coffee vending machine with pre-order capabilities: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1k3Lvb/

- Film ice: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1Brqhd/

- crew rest areas in airplanes: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1koA9C/

- derma lasers: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1B8cGF/

- Live every day like it’s NBER day: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR1Bjupm/

BTW: TT is a good way to stay up to date with youth culture without actually having to experience it IRL.

Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by planb »

Here in Germany, I have not seen much quality content on TikTok yet. Every time people praise the service like in these comments, I give it another try. I start the app and see unfunny scripted jokes, barely dressed girls singing and today even covid denial. I try to swipe it away as quickly as possible, but the algorithm doesn't seem to adjust. Yes, there are some funny or interesting clips in between, but what exactly is the content that keeps you in the app?

Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by deckard1 »

antoineMoPa wrote: post #442
crvdgc wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a non-user, I am genuinely curious about what are some concrete examples of productive contents? From my understanding, the only format of communication on TikTok is videos with a short time limit. I'd imagine it is hard to convey much to be considered productive.

There are a lot of tech-related accounts. There is also a lot of marketing, ux-design. Some examples : - @therubberduckiee - @loewhaley - @tony.aube - @cassidoo - @systems_analyst There is also urban design tiktok with @mrbarricade. Let's also be clear that the goal of the app is to entertain and I think it does this really well and cheaply. Then sometimes you learn something that you might use in your work or person…

I went through all those accounts you listed and this is all just aspirational meme garbage you see on IG. I feel like you're gaslighting us right now

Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by mrtksn »

nirui wrote: post #444
mrtksn wrote: post #25

I'm a huge fan of TikTok because after years of content stagnation and dullness, the internet is fun again. Especially places like Twitter and Instagram are outrage and depression inducers for me, consumed together it feels like the society is collapsing but everyone is living a perfect life at the same time. The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and prote…

> the internet is fun again My opinion is, things happened on the Internet are mostly the reflections of what happened in the real world, +amplified. You got people from all the corners and they all got different backgrounds. The common is probably that they know how to buy reliable&comfortable keyboards. During the years, in China, Chinese companies has developed some sophisticated strategies to allow them to grow a…

The fun I mean isn’t only about entertaining me to death, there are plenty of thought provoking creators too. History, cosmology, math, philosophy - TikTok has it all.

Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by markild »

romwell wrote: post #463
rvz wrote: post #457

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't 'follow' anyone on this site and anyone can simply have a random discussion here with anybody. The logic you tried to apply here doesn't work and isn't the same thing unlike what is going on in 'TikTok'. As for my question(s) you are yet to answer, I'll make the first one more clearer for you: >> Do they (the people you are following on TikTok) know you personally as if they are your close friends? >> So yo…

Notice how I am discussing things that you said , and you are discussing me , while also making claims about me . What I value on TikTok is lack of unprovoked hostility of this kind in the communities that I have discovered there. Enjoy your day, my friend, and try to find another person to argue about.

I don't have any skin in this game, but I think it's very sad to see that the conclusion being drawn from this discussion is that it's unprovoked hostility. I see disagreements and different values.

I hope both parties in this discussion can disconnect the message from the person.

Having discussions with people we disagree with about topics we see differently is in my honest opinion the way we get out of the "us vs them" tendency to think.

Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by mrtksn »

stanislavb wrote: post #194
mrtksn wrote: post #25

I'm a huge fan of TikTok because after years of content stagnation and dullness, the internet is fun again. Especially places like Twitter and Instagram are outrage and depression inducers for me, consumed together it feels like the society is collapsing but everyone is living a perfect life at the same time. The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and prote…

You are addicted (most probably). Not exactly "a huge fan" (most probably). It shouldn't sound like blaming or something. It's just that TikTok has proven having a more addictive algo than FB.

According to my iPhone’s screen time stats, it doesn’t look like an addiction. I averaged less than 30 min/day on TikTok. Twitter is over 2 hours.

I would be on TikTok before sleep, sometimes for over an hour but not everyday. It doesn’t induce FOMO.

Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by deckard1 »

nostromo wrote: post #28
ericcholis wrote: post #4

Pro TikTok take. It's easier and friendlier to consume. The algorithm is good at tailoring interests. But, it's more like TV than FB.

It’s also much more positive. If I spend 20 minutes on TikTok I usually laugh and smile a few times. And regularly I’m impressed at human creativity. 20 minutes on Instagram or Facebook is usually either boring or leaves me comparing myself to others. 20 minutes on YouTube and I feel like I’ve watched 10 minutes of ads and 10 minutes of fluff. 20 minutes on Reddit and I hate the world.

so they built a better filter bubble for you. Brave New World had Soma and we have TikTok.

I'm not sure humans, flesh and blood, should be handing control of our emotional state to corporations with highly-tuned algorithms.

Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by mrtksn »

josephcsible wrote: post #454
mrtksn wrote: post #25

I'm a huge fan of TikTok because after years of content stagnation and dullness, the internet is fun again. Especially places like Twitter and Instagram are outrage and depression inducers for me, consumed together it feels like the society is collapsing but everyone is living a perfect life at the same time. The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and prote…

> The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and protectionist. The problem is that China doesn't play fair, so if the west plays perfectly fair against them, we won't beat them even though we're better.

I’m not concerned about wellbeing of China but about the future of the West, simply because I am European.

Quality of our products decline rapidly when they are not optimized for our needs but the needs of the country to compete with China.

What terrifies me the most is becoming like China to compete with them(Where every individual msu provide for its country and not the other way around). I was shocked when TikTok was almost banned in the USA and people were rallying for it because China is banning US social media.

Please don’t become China. If the US becomes like China, I am afraid Europe will follow and the world will be dominated by the Chinese way of life where individual rights and freedoms are limited in the name of national security.

Re: TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by mrtksn »

durpleDrank wrote: post #285
mrtksn wrote: post #25

I'm a huge fan of TikTok because after years of content stagnation and dullness, the internet is fun again. Especially places like Twitter and Instagram are outrage and depression inducers for me, consumed together it feels like the society is collapsing but everyone is living a perfect life at the same time. The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and prote…

That's crazy that you mentioned Nile Red. I coincidentally just finished watching his tiktok and thought "boy am I glad I didn't have to sit through 40 minutes of beaker swapping just to see the end result". I much prefer his tiktok channel over the youtube channel.

Interesting, for me his long videos have ASMR effect. I also enjoy following his thought process, which is absent on TikTok.
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