I’ve noticed that any trend or fad that I find out about months later originates on TikTok. I have no interest in using the app for a variety of reasons, but if it’s something that might actually improve how I live then I might get FOMO.

  • AttackBunny@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Guess you need to ask yourself how you see it improving your life, to answer that question.

    IMO, no social media will improve your life, in a meaningful way. They may kill time, or seem like you’re benefiting from them, but in the long run, they are propaganda/data collection machines, and nothing more.

    • dekema@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I think people are misunderstanding what I’m getting at…

      Some creators I’ve seen on YouTube came up with interesting content ideas on TikTok and transitioned over to YouTube to make more money, specifically photographers

      • B_Minus_Student@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        As someone into photography I cringe at every attempt to feed the algorithms that isn’t purely…here is a photograph.

        Maybe that’s just me but we don’t need tiktok.

      • AttackBunny@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        @dekema Understood, but what I think people are trying to say is that TikTok isn’t what you are looking for. It’s trash content to keep people scrolling. Arguably all social media is that, but TikTok also has the “bonus” of being enough chinese owned that it’s also a concerning data collection tool.

        There may be a handful of creators on there, but think just about every link from tiktok you see. Personally, every time I see anything from there it’s some dumb dance, some dumb car trend, or a new “challenge”, or someone rambling about something they did/someone they encountered in public.

        Unfortunately, if you want to make money, you need to whore yourself out on some form of social, and it’s usually mindless useless content. And because you need to post constantly, to keep the algorithms happy, the content suffers. TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook being the worst currently, imo.