'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span (theweek.com)

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[-] djsaskdja@endlesstalk.org 28 points 1 year ago

They probably said this about disco and sliced bread too.

[-] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sliced bread, that's it, grab your torches and forks!

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Who eats sliced bread with a fork?

[-] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Pitchforks

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

It's weird to eat bread with pitchforks too

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

How do you eat your french toast?

[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Like Winnie the Pooh! With my bare hands slathered in honey!

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

And reading too.

[-] phi1997@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Those weren't designed to be addicting the way platforms like TikTok are

[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Didn't read, sorry. Reddit brain made my brain work not so good.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah we've known this for a while now but the phrasing makes it sound deliberately panic inducing

[-] pixeled@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

So would you say that is unjust, seeing the massive effects and repercussions of this on society as a whole? As a father of a young girl I'm very happy to see more attention on this by news media.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

But as your father it's your responsibility to limit her screen time. TikTok brain isn't "coming for your kids" you're enabling it.

People act like taking away Internet is abuse and it's weird

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 1 year ago

Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edx9D2yaOGs

I dare you to watch this entire video

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[-] finthechat@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Hasn't it already?

You guys try talking to people online outside the Fediverse (and even here sometimes)? It's like Idiocracy is happening IRL.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

"Everyone else has killed their attention span apart from me"

I say as I scroll past several posts without a through.

[-] EherVielleicht@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

If you're looking that good, you don't have to know anything.

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