People don’t like it because:

  1. It’s the new thing. If alcohol were introduced today it would be banned in every country on earth. People tolerate Facebook, Twitter, Insta because that’s what’s been around. They all do the same thing, but TikTok is new and scary.
  2. Short form video is scary! It’s a new form of entertainment, and old people don’t like new forms of entertainment. See: every newly introduced form of entertainment in history, books included.
  3. They are misinformed about what data a mobile application can and cannot do, and the level of security built into both iOS and Android. Rest “assured”, they are collecting as much data as they can – just like every app creator on the planet. What they aren’t doing is capturing mic data while you’re sleeping (that’s not how microphones in phones work), stealing your passwords from your clipboard (OS’s notify users about clipboard paste)
  4. China bad. This primes people to consider negative press about it with a less skeptical eye, feeding the above points. (Don’t misconstrue me as being pro-China, I’m not, and that’s not what this post is about.)
  • HotDogFingies@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    You have to start somewhere. Learning something on tiktok is the start of the process, not the end.

    You start with a thread and you pull and you pull and you pull and pretty soon you have enough thread to sew yourself an entire wardrobe.

    You can’t start at the end or the middle or a third of the way through. You start at the beginning. You can’t research something if you don’t know it exists. You start with an idea, a question, not the answer.

    You are looking at this like an adult looking backwards, not a young person looking forwards. You can not learn in reverse.

      • HotDogFingies@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        How can you search for something that you are unaware of?

        You gather ideas, ask questions, and then you take them somewhere else.

        Again, you are thinking in reverse. An adult with a few decades of experience under their belt. Tiktok, in part, appeals to young people because they inherently have a beginner’s mindset. Everything is new and there’s much to learn.

          • charles@lemmy.worldOP
            2·
            1 year ago

            Are many tiktok users gathering ideas, asking questions and looking into this stuff further? I do not see this at all.

            Yes. You don’t see it because you don’t use it.

            You can very much search and follow creators and topics. You can view a feed of just subscribed profiles. I do wish there were ways to make lists of profiles to have more focused feeds at different times, but that’s hardly a scathing indictment.