IS TIKTOK GOOD? (A COMPLICATED BLOG)

Now I have a lot of opinions on the app TikTok. On one hand it’s a pretty amazing app I get amazing content, I laugh, time goes by faster, and so much more. On the other hand it’s so easy to doomscroll, see stupid stuff, and it fragment your attention to a degree like no other. Now the question that I asked was is TikTok good? And truly I don’t know on one hand I think it’s keeping some people alive in a truly messed up world but on another hand what happens if you make millions of people unable to live in the present time, time and time again? How is that shaping people as the duration of time goes on? It’s definitely some critical questions I think people need to ask when it comes to the machinery of TikTok. The algorithm being so good and addicting it takes you out of real life for moments at a time. That’s good in moments but when your whole lifestyle get built off of that that’s what keeps it questionable. Now I am not a person who never scrolled on TikTok before. I have done my hours of scrolling, and one of the things I notice is that it keeps the audience, the content creators, and everybody in a overstimulating frenzy. There some live creators on the app I see doing the same thing every day and in real life the activities they are doing would be questionable but on the app it becomes rewardable. I guess the question it leads me asking is this. How long do we separate digital reality from physical reality? Or do we just act like those are separate things and these apps don’t affect humans at all. I don’t know I guess the answer is up to the viewer reading this. In conclusion though, I don’t necessarily think TikTok is good or bad but if you start letting it run your life that’s when you get all the bad sides of it. Best Regards, Jeremiah Womack