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I think the popularity of TikTok is already declining and I always question the effectiveness of such propaganda attempts. Investing in education is the best antidote in my opinion, state level blocking of services just opens a few cans of worms.

To make TikTok unpopular more quickly, governments should probably mandate that parents make an account too.

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> mandate that parents make an account too.

Guarantee higher monthly active users and the chance they get addicted too. Nice. I don't know why everyone thinks that:

1) parents are infallible

2) the problem is individuals/families and not the thing itself (infinite scroll feeds)

It was a joke suggesting that young people tend to think a platform becomes less cool if their parents are on it too. Not that parents can stalk the online life of their kids or other things that actually do make them uncool.

>To make TikTok unpopular more quickly, governments should probably mandate that parents make an account too.

Nice. It definitely worked for FB :)

But then I noticed all of the insane stuff that they started reposting and wondered if I ever really knew these people at all?

Popularity will definitely wane, the social media rise and fall cycle will repeat

Do we know what comes after Tiktok?

No, the teens/college kids are still all over tiktok. It's not dying yet

A constant AI generated feed, in and out of fully immersive, no swiping, just eye tracking (incl. pupil dilation) and face tracking to guide. Though some in congress who promoted the ban thought it already worked kind like that.

Ow! My balls!

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