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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tik Tok is extraordinarily toxic.  All it is doing is training peoples' (especially kids') brains to basically become ADD.  Kids these days are absolutely incapable of holding an attention span for more than 3 minutes, because they've grown up their entire lives being completely addicted to 5 second video clips.  If you don't get to the punchline for instant gratification in a matter of seconds, kids are incapable of listening for longer.  I don't even want to think about the nightmare this is going to turn into 20 years from now when you are trying to teach young students complex topics are university like quantum mechanics or virtually any STEM based materials they require intense listening and deductive reasoning.  Kids will absolutely be unable to handle such materials after having their brains turned to mush by social media like TikTok. [/quote]

I agree.  I can see it in my own brain.  If the clip isn't interesting in the first twelve seconds, I move on.  It is damaging.  
But....it is our jobs as parents to keep our kids away from this as long as possible.  I saw this very early on in video games, many kid shows and of course tik tok.  The three second bite where the video or game has to change in three second increments to keep the child's attention.  I tried to keep it from my child as long as possible.  He still doesn't have an attention span and can't entertain himself, but I tried.  [/quote]

I don't use Tik Tok, and I know this is happening to me from other online browsing.  And I'm old so my brain is fully formed yet it's still a problem so imagine the impact on a brain that is still developing.[/quote]

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