Cool, now provide solutions that exist today for every other country

There is only one set of facts.

There is only one ground truth, yes, but the set of facts that live in my head and the set of facts that live in yours will be different. This is called “theory of mind” and most humans develop it around age 4-8.

Good effort,

Thanks!

instead of educating yourself, get someone else to do it.

Work smarter, not harder

Instead of posting a nearly useless comment,

Cruel irony, using my own words against me

go get yourself an education

I did, but I’m not on the same wavelength as you, so I still have a ways to go :(

I’ll give you a head start

Thank God, I didn’t even know it was a race

it’s all in the algorithm.

Which one? I’m guessing quicksort.

How many? Turn off TV, unsubscribe from Hulu rows.

You mean they signed up for an app that actually works and generates a feed for you vs one that doesn’t do either of those things?

The issue for common people regarding tiktok is more along the lines of foreign adversaries obtaining personal information of the users or using it to spy on the government

What’s the difference between Facebook / Meta selling my data to whoever, vs. TikTok harvesting it themselves?

I don’t see how videos of capybaras falling asleep is influencing me to overthrow the US government

I’m going to respond as if you posted this in good faith.

How about you cite your claims and pull people out of potential filter bubbles?

When I search for stuff I don’t find information that leads me to the same conclusion as you. Clearly we’re operating on two different sets of facts.

So instead of posting the most nearly useless kind of comment possible, educate and enlighten.

It does get stuck in a rut sometimes. If you kill the app and come back to it lsome time ater, that signals that they need to shake things up so your “randomness factor” (my term) gets boosted the next time you start scrolling.

I have kids. I don’t see how that’s relevant here.

Children shouldn’t have social media accounts in my opinion. Nothing to attack or break into if it doesn’t exist.

A coworker shouldn’t know enough or otherwise have enough access to your child such that they can break into their accounts.

Failing all that, parents need to have frank discussions about the potential dangers of internet fans turning into real life people, and some of the more severe potential consequences.

Even without those three layers of failure, your kids need to know about basic online account security, like using unique strong passwords and two factor authentication.

That all being said- I don’t know the people or the situation. But from your short account of things that’s what I see as wrong with the situation.

In general, the social networks of today are optimized for extracting value and attention from adult brains; an incomplete adolescent brain stands no chance.

Kids can still socialize electronically just fine in group chats with the advent of RCS implementation on both major phone platforms.

Not sure what kids in cages have to do with anything or why they were mentioned.

If making Mr Weebl laugh at my TikTok comments is wrong I don’t wanna be right.

Name them!

Tiktok shows you more of what you engage in and throws some randomness in there so you don’t get stuck in a local minimum. It’s like when YouTube’s algorithm kinda worked and you could see how it’d possibly be better; bytedance actually pulled it off instead of enshittifying.

And it takes time for the algorithm to learn your tastes. If you’re a mouth breather at heart you’re gonna get mouth breather content no matter how much you try and change it. If you’re a perv and linger on thirst traps… You’re going to see more thirst traps.

With your described scenario, that’s not unique to tiktok- that can happen on any platform when the child is unsupervised. It could have been twitch, Roblox, Instagram, Snapchat, it myriad other platforms; the real problem there is inattentive parenting.

I’ve learned about more shitty local government practices from tiktok than any other platform. I’ve been exposed to points of view I’d never otherwise see. Random videos have triggered just as much progress on my mental health as years of therapy. I’ve found people far more articulate than me explaining shit that combats my family’s far right talking points in a way where they actually listen and change their mind, and vice versa.

I’ve also consumed an inordinate amount of white hot memes and mountains of brain rot lol

But yeah. The TT algorithm is a mirror (given time). It reflects your persona back at you with the type of content you see.

I feel like teleportation gets you an ability that makes money just fine. Hell, just invulnerability makes you valuable for cleaning up nuclear accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima.