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: Recommendations aren’t but a feature, they are what makes TikTok work! TikTok receives more engagement per user than Instagram and on average its users spend 52 minutes per day on the platform. These are incredibly shocking statistics coming from a platform that begin in late 2016! This article will explore how the TikTok recommendation algorithm works, the implications of such a system and what the goals that TikTok aims to accomplish by providing a platform that keeps its statistically young users so engaged. TikTok is Unique
Many social platforms use some variation of a recommendation algorithm to provide accurate content that fit the historic behaviors of its users. To spare you the details, TikTok is able to recommend you videos by what you and others have watched. If you watched the same TikTok as others, you are likely to be recommended the videos they have watched. These algorithms are able to predict the preferences that you would give to a piece of content based on the activity of similar users to you. There are many methods and varieties of these recommenders. If you are interested, an in depth description of YouTube’s algorithm can be found here.