Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
- American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
- Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
- The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
Remember these people are ill. Social media addiction will be studied for years to come. Bashing these kind of people will only push them to these apps and worsen the problem. The more honest we are, the faster this will turn around. Call these people sick to their face and watch them writhe and squirm as they try and justify it. It looks ugly but it will do them a load of help compared to nothing.
If making Mr Weebl laugh at my TikTok comments is wrong I don’t wanna be right.
It should be that simple. What people don’t realize is it isn’t. That’s okay, I’m not mad. I just want to help.
You’re on social media right now.
False dichotomy, they aren’t the same. There is no ‘social media’ just how we communicate right now. Right now at best it’s innocent stealing of our data for enormous profit, at worst - it’s influencing us to destroy ourselves or each other.
It’s not the same category of social media though.
You’ve got (sorted by best to worst)
Each of these can be called social media, but they serve different purposes and some are more harmful than others
You’re sick, he’s sick, we’re all sick! SICK!
True, but engagement isn’t gamified here.
People do things on their free time. Stop calling everything people do “an addiction”.
It’s just another addiction in our world that encourages over-consumption. If this were just people looking at silly videos nobody would have a problem. It’s just another brick in the wall. We should fight for every one that gets put in.
5 hours tiktok scrolling is an addiction
I mean did they have something better to do?