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Apparently you don't use Tiktok. Facebook is bad but TikTok is next level bad. It damages a whole new generation's dopamine system and their mental health and who knows what. FB is a declining empire which is less relevant day by day . Time will take care of it. But TikTok is the real bad boy. If you put chinese communist government into equation , then it is even worse.

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Oh absolutely. They copied what Facebook did and turned it up to 11. Their CCP ties give TikTok its own evil spin. The Chinese basically planted a mental health bomb among American teenagers.

That doesn’t make Facebook the good guy though. In fact, they made it ridiculously easy for TikTok to come up with an even more addictive product.

Are Chinese teens immune to it?

Funny. At first I laughed and the googled [0]. The response would suggest that either chinese teens are immune or china is blocking it in most of china. Or something else, but we know that the users are not in china.

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299807/number-of-monthl...

I mean… why would they be on TikTok? China has its own clone (named Douyin) as they usually do. AFAIK it's very popular there.

Calling it a clone feels misleading to me. They're both made by ByteDance. It's more akin to two instances of a product (with some customizations on each).

Thats not the point. China controls it much more so that they have to make the algo addictive different.

Instead of promoting sex, they need to show helpfull videos (in theory)

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