Fair warning: the socialization of your children is no longer happening in your homes or in your schools, it is happening online on really mindless social nets like Tik Tok. I really hope that that CEO of Tik Tok has bad dreams every night. No he doesnt. He doesnt care. He cares nothing about your kids, he cares nothing about the state of children, or their wellbeing he only cares about how much money is going into his pocket and his company's coffers or with his investors. You cant blame him or tik tok, it is your fault for letting your kids spend x too many hours on tik tok. Parents fault. Easy way out. Geez I d almost like to go back to the 90s when Beevis and Butthead were the teenage icons. They were way smarter than anything on tik tok.
What not one of those people in the company or invested in it will admit is that it is an addiction. An addiction for kids to keep scrolling endlessly. Addictions are always good for the makers of the addictions. Alcohol, drugs, sugar, its all good for sales when people are addicted. Jeff (y)ass
I remember when my daughter was a little baby before she learned how to talk. She kept saying the phonic sound "ba". Ba ba ba. Say at least one hundred times a day. Probably more.
Babies, and my daughter too, she would just drop something and leave it there. That was fine. I understood that a baby loses attention and just drop what they are working on and leave it there. They cant have an idea of putting it away. You dont get that idea until way after 2 if not 4 and that is after your parents have said 1000 times "can you put your stuff away?" in a nice comfy pleasant tone of voice.
Now, funny how I have to listen to my 16 year old teenage girl repeat the same couple words at least 100 times a day if not several hundred.
Sigma. Sigma this sigma that. And if you are playing a board game with her, you can count on hearing the word 100 times during the play time.
Yes I know adults also do this. "Dude", "bro" are probably words from other generations. I hear a word in a language other than english uttered sometimes twice in sentences by people speaking that language, at the least in every sentence. That too is very annoying and I would like to tell them that it sounds awful, accept that they are my work colleagues and I would rather not have bad releations. So.... crap. I have to hear it.
But Sigma. Seriously Dude. It gets annoying after the 50th time. Then it is just mind grading, like scraping your nails on a chalkboard.
And for crying out loud, when will we be done with the word "skibidi" Or Skibidee? I felt like throwing up after hearing that word about the 10 000 time about two months ago. Fine, it will go and some other dumb word and trend will replace it.
Ok, sure, these actions, words, have always been developed by teen agers. They have their own language and "boomers" are well, "boomers", they dont understand. In fact everyone, every parent has always been a boomer to their teenage children. "boomers" (parents) have never understood their teenagers. Teenagers now will be boomers in 20, 30 years.
Ok, so yippee for teenagers.
But...
So, I have to ask, have they always been this dumb and annoying or is it getting worse? I would like the CEO of tik tok to be flushed down his skibidee toilet. At the very least, that he has teenagers who drive him crazy too with dumb tik tok videos. I mean seriously, does the guy even watch the content? And he says he wants to make a safe, entertaining experience for every age group. Well let me ask you this Mr. Shou Zi Chew, does addiction count as safe? No, only to your pocketbook and your investors. And then you keep yourself safe by saying Singapore has stricter rules for under 8 (or 11?) year olds. So he is let off the hook. In fact Singapore is controlling his tik tok. Just wait til his daughter is above 13 and she is scrolling for two or three hours a day. Let it happen, please please let it happen.
That is the difference before when teenagers had their own culture and language. It wasnt an addiction, a physical addiction which caused them damage. It was just culture, the culture of teeens. But tik tok is an addiction. It is not a safe environment Mr. Chew.
Question? Why is Harvard putting out all these weirdo nutcases who are making billions off of making us suffer under their mindless creations?