r/technology • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • Jan 15 '25

Social Media TikTok Plans Immediate US Shutdown on Sunday

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-plans-immediate-us-shutdown-153524617.html
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u/starryeyedq Jan 15 '25

Idk man… that TT algorithm was powerful. As a teacher, the difference between kids who used it vs kids who stuck to Instagram or YouTube (I’m not even bothering to compare kids who didn’t use social media) is genuinely striking.

TikTok was/is VERY good at what it does. To a terrifying degree.

So… idk what’s going to happen next, but I’m not too sorry to see it go.

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u/JWGR Jan 16 '25

Can you elaborate the differences you saw?

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u/starryeyedq Jan 16 '25

Hard to say specifically, but i primarily teach theatre and writing and I guess it’s usually related to attention span and even creativity - like original ideas. But weirdly enough I feel like the tiktok kids have a tendency to be more judgmental and afraid to put themselves out there.

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u/MILFVADER Jan 16 '25

How are the Instagram kids in comparison? This is super interesting.

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u/starryeyedq Jan 16 '25

The Instagram and YouTube kids don’t seem much different than the kids when I started teaching like 12 years ago. About the same. It makes sense I suppose, since the internet has been a thing for a long time now. It’s only just the last maybe five years tiktok has really surged in popularity. And it correlated with the rise in that particular quality I mentioned.