TikTok Talk

[beefytee]

I've uninstalled the Instagram and Facebook apps off my phone. I've tried to get off of them, but all missionary communication is on Facebook, so I get on there to talk to my daughter on messenger and look at her and her mission president's posts.

I still look at Instagram every once in a while. It is helpful to see what school events are coming up. There is so much crap on both of those platforms now, I try not to do much scrolling.

[falafel]

One of the really awesome things about CS is that it is really hard to spend more than 15 minutes at a time here. None of us is like "Whoa, I got on Cougarstadium and next thing I knew three hours had passed by"

Congrats to all of us for building a doomscroll-proof platform!

I still try though.

[Pelado]

I still try though.

I succeed.

[Northwestcoug]

My daughter makes a killing on tik tok. So I have a conflict of interest here.

I follow her. She does as good a job as a bunch of other foodie accounts I follow. Doesn't hurt that your grandkid is pretty cute.

I started on TikTok with the Washington post guy a couple of years ago, and then mushroomed to a bunch of arts and woodworking, fishing, cooking, and comedy. It started taking a lot of my time so I quit for a few months. I started back on a couple of months ago, and out of the ~75 accounts I started with only a handful are still actively creating. So my TikTokking takes about 20 minutes a day. Also helps to only watch your 'following' thread, and not the 'for you'.

[Moliere]

government can't ban it but parents should. uniquely addictive source of cheap dopamine that is going to ruin a generation's ability to experience contentedness.

I agree with this but most parents don't care. My oldest daughter got it when she was around 15-16 and it was clearly addictive. We tried to ban it but figured to deal with other larger issues first. We didn't allow it for our other kids until they turn 18. I'm sure they check it somehow but I know the app isn't on their phones and the website is blocked.

It's no coincidence that kids and young adults have skyrocketing anxiety and depression at the same time that they are the first generation to grow up with social media.

[YOhio]

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[frank ryan]

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I think people have lambasted humanities education too soon. We have a lot of ignored people just waiting to be manipulated. They should be able to comprehend recent American history.

[Jeff Lebowski]

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[USUC]

I think people have lambasted humanities education too soon. We have a lot of ignored people just waiting to be manipulated. They should be able to comprehend recent American history.

The majority of these people come from the college of humanities. The humanities in the late 90s/early 00s is not the humanities of today.

I agree that humanities are important. Exposure to a variety of philosophical and political ideas and teaching how to put them in context is essential for a healthy society. The dominant lens of the humanities now appears to be power. The oppressor vs the oppressed. Its a narrow and dangerous lens to view everything through.

[Moliere]

Holy crap.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Naïveté, ignorance of history, and virtue signaling on parade. Hey kids, while you're at it, make your next TikTok post about the China's grotesque persecution of Uighurs and Tibetans, and their system of Han-centered apartheid. Once your account is edited or frozen, you'll have time to look up every tyrant in history and find lots of reasons, often superficially good, for the crimes and atrocities they committed.

[frank ryan]

The majority of these people come from the college of humanities. The humanities in the late 90s/early 00s is not the humanities of today.

I agree that humanities are important. Exposure to a variety of philosophical and political ideas and teaching how to put them in context is essential for a healthy society. The dominant lens of the humanities now appears to be power. The oppressor vs the oppressed. It's a narrow and dangerous lens to view everything through.

I understand your point, but I think there is a bit of a persecution complex among conservatives and conservative students. Charlie Kirk, who was a college student for five minutes hypocritically holds up the banner for these folks. I've definitely come across a few professors who had an anti-conservative bias or religion-skeptical perspective. But more often, I've seen classmates who struggle with understanding certain concepts misattribute their issues to vast but non-existent Marxist force.
Essentially, some self-designated conservatives are far more snowflakey than than they believe those that harm them are.

[frank ryan]

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Looks photoshoppy.

[Non Sequitur]

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I have no problem with people being interested in the letter and posting it. I do have a problem with people condoning 9/11 based on the grievances in that letter. It's important for U.S. citizens to have a perspective of U.S. politics through a global lens. We are not perfect. For most of us, if we were born Muslim in the Middle East, we would view the United States as an international bully and have a certain level of mistrust against the U.S.. That mistrust wouldn't be entirely unfounded.

[Bo Diddley]

Looks photoshoppy.

I was thinking the same thing.