‘TikTok brain’ may be coming for your kid’s attention span::Emerging research suggests that TikTok’s rapid-fire short videos are affecting the attention spans of its younger users, making it harder for them to engage in activities that require more sustained attention.
I know everyone wants to rile against the next generations stuff, people said the same shit about the internet, and reddit, and Twitter, now tiktok.
But this article is just regurgitating old articles from other places and throwing tiktok in there because they know everyone over 25 gets riled up just reading the name tik tok.
I’m 25 and I’m surprised by how many people I know that are addicted to TikTok and YouTube shorts
Are you suggesting that anything about the internet hasn’t reduced attention spans?
Especially as it’s becoming more accessible and common for younger people to get more exposure during key points in brain development.
It goes beyond simple accessibility and engagement, if young people are not participating in these social medias it can become harder to connect with your peers - so you’re almost socially punished for not embracing and participating in brain rot (all social media, not just Tik Tok).
No. I’m saying that this is rage bait and been said about everything from rock music to pokemon.
I didn’t click on any of the white papers linked inside the news article either, who knows what those Chinese university students put it there…
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Bruh, they said it about TV, radio, magazines, even printed books.
There was a time when older generations literally said that the printing press was going to ruin the next generations brains because they’d be reading all the time.
This has been happening for centuries.