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: The same is true historically from YouTube, and Facebook among other older social media. However, TikTok is recommendation first. As soon as you enter the platform you are hit with an infinite viewing experience of 15 second videos made predominately by young creators that you never chose to watch. This makes the platform immediately stimulating. TikTok’s mission, as it claims, aims to “.. capture and present the world’s creativity, knowledge, and precious life moments, directly from the mobile phone. TikTok enables everyone to be a creator, and encourages users to share their passion and creative expression through their videos.” Although users can and do provide such content, the consequences of how the platform operates should be subject to rigorous scrutiny. Why would a platform with such an initiative employ a recommendation first approach? Would that not support captivation over creativity? If the platform aims to present creativity, knowledge and precious life moments, why is the content restricted to 15 second videos?