Title: How TikTok Is Addictive. Psychological Impacts of TikTok’s… | by - | DataSeries | Medium
Headings: How TikTok Is Addictive
How TikTok Is Addictive
Psychological Impacts of TikTok’s Content Recommendation System
TikTok is Unique
The Audience
How TikTok Affects Us
What TikTok Does Well
The Attention Economy
Conclusion
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Content: This can be on issues of social and individual identity, and a distraction from accomplishing the crucial tasks requisite of them at such a formative age to engage with the passions that can lead to a flourishing life. Furthermore, younger individuals may feel more obliged to engage with this platform. The more impressionable the user, the more they lack the control to disengage from the platform and the more data the platform has to accurately recommend these individuals appropriate content. This effect spirals given that both the social demands and the improving content the platform provides, the more it is likely these users spend on TikTok. A Cornell student of the name Niko Nguyen wrote an opinion piece about the their troubling experience with the platform. This is a quote from that piece: “The majority of my past winter break was spent on TikTok, up until the moment when the app took its dying breath on my phone. But even when I wasn’t scrolling through the endless stream of cringe-worthy “Renegade” dances and entertaining life hacks I know I’ll never use, I started to notice TikTok everywhere I looked. My group chats were constantly inundated by waves of TikToks my friends found funny. Scrolling through Instagram stories and Twitter — two social media platforms competing against TikTok — I found myself consuming the short-form videos outside of the app itself.