What does ‘better’ mean here? Eg TikTok is better at personalising recommendations where facebook tends to give more generic content, so TikTok may better give people what they want but also be more addictive/have a stronger filter-bubble effect.
Because it’s the most logical thing to do and not doing so is a national security nightmare
Then why does it have so much philosophy content that can reveal the naivete of the many comments like this one reads about "TikTok"?
The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4
If calling it what it is helps encourage people to stop doing it to themselves (we are after all emotion-first, rationalization-later!)... then your taking offense on my behalf (for the record, I do have brain damage) will have been an acceptable cost.