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Comment by rexreed | Hacker News Reader

Get. Off. Tiktok. Get. Off. Social media. I feel like an old man screaming at kids to get off the lawn. But am I the only one? What's the draw on Tiktok really? I never got it. Then again I never got Twitter either. In my day, we had Usenet for social media and BBSes. And when we cried, it's because we were flamed hard. I have much respect for AI researchers who are some of the most talented in the world, and yet it's cognitive dissonance for me to see them working for social media and advertising companies.

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This isn’t really a TikTok invention, filters like this were popularized on Snapchat years ago. TikTok is primarily a YouTube alternative, and there’s perfectly good content to be found (sometimes in spite of the algorithm).

Agree in general, though. Social media is a business for some and for everyone else it’s just mind-games.

> And when we cried, it's because we were flamed hard

Wow, it sounds SO great.

> What's the draw on Tiktok really?

TikTok is an amazing "curiosity catalyst". Most videos last 30 seconds. You can learn and discover a lot in not that much time. The short format makes it enough to become interested in tons of subjects and be able to search more later. I honestly feel like TikTok brought me my creativity back.

It's also way more "feel good" than other social networks for some reason. That's the perfect place for people to share their stories because they don't "get flamed hard". But maybe that's just because Gen Z is more respectful of difference and TikTok will become increasingly worse as boomers get on board, I don't know.

But if you used the filter you could be a young man.

I'd use the double old man filter and look like a raisin screaming at the younguns.

Get off Hacker News.

/sarcasm

When ChatGPT bots or AI systems start generating or modifying content here, I absolutely will. Perhaps it already is happening.

You just said get off social media but somehow hn is ok until it's taken over by AI generated content?

Honestly, HN feels as close to Reddit as it has ever been. This isn’t bad advice. I may have to make this choice soon for reasons of sanity.

> I feel like an old man screaming at kids to get off the lawn

You are an old man screaming at kids and normal people playing in a park.

TikTok is the most non-toxic social media. It's a positive sign we can move forward past Facebook and Twitter.

And it's more positive than HN. You don't have old people on TikTok to trying destroy what young people are doing to reclaim their youth.

> TikTok is the most non-toxic social media.

Holy hell, citation needed.

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