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WORMS_EAT_WORMS

Algo Literacy is just some crappy half-baked term I made up on the spot.

It guess it is like Media Literacy where a person is able to contextualize the info they read about in a bigger picture sense.

The second someone — especially a kid — opens TikTok / social media, they are essentially granting access and unlocking their mind for someone else to cram as much information as possible into it.

The Clockwork Orange example is just a reference of mixing that concept with emotional videos and high screen time. The whole idea is not new and it has serious impact on your behavior and sense of self.

Social media is easy to blame for problems but it would be better if people learned to guard themselves a bit.

I take TikTok is just an example and that this applies equally as well to other social media like Instagram/FB/Youtube? Or is there anything particularly notorious about TikTok?

I haven't used TikTok myself but I have observed others using it and it certainly feels a lot more fast-paced and saturated compared to Instagram (which for me already feels like that anyway).

I'm not a behavioral expert, and I don't use tiktok, but I know people who do use it daily, almost as soon as they wake up even. I think the speed and short blasts of visual information acts as sort of a desensitizer to certain content, like if I said to you, in short 5 second bursts "facts", you might retain the 35th "fact" and not question it because you're already on the 50th "fact".

I often am told certain things that might or might not be true, but are often couched in true things. The one i heard the other day was a long list of mandela effects, now some of them were true, but often had context around them that wasn't given ... e.g. Pikachu not having the black stripe on its tail, that could easily have context with regards to time that picture was used, lore in pokemon..etc. but it's reduced to a far more simple "fact"

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