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TikTok is the first piece of computer software that I'm treating like a dangerous and currently legal recreational drug. No doubt lots of fun, obviously not good for you, don't need it, so simply not gonna use it.

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Back in the 90's, I had a bad Tetris habit. I was in college at the time and missed quite a few classes because of it. I used to dream about falling Tetris pieces.

More recent for me was Factorio. I had to remove it from my Steam library entirely because I'd lose days per week otherwise.

That's called "the Tetris effect" [0]. It was later used as the title for a game in the series.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

>TikTok is the first piece of computer software that I'm treating like a dangerous and currently legal recreational drug.

It's the fentanyl to Facebook's heroin. The crack to Instagram's cocaine.

More of the same idea, with an unimaginably more destructive and addictive quality emergent from its' purity, quantity, and availability.

This. It's not a net-new presence, but very perfectly tuned to catch emotions well.

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