apparently tiktok is back in the apple store, and I’ve been going back and forth with myself on it about redownloading it- I deleted it a few days before the first ‘ban,’ and frankly, it really was better for me.
Yes, it took a few days to readjust, and it was a lot easier to be bored, but I’ve also felt a lot better mentally. The urge to doomscroll is gone, and I’ve been getting all my news directly from actually accredited news sources. While they are slower and there are biases to be aware of, the information I’ve been getting has been a lot more clear and lacks the dramatized, overtly emotional feel that a lot of tiktok videos about current events had.
There’s also the added matter of the odd alleged censorship on tiktok that’s been going around ever since Pres. 47 got his fingers in it. Frankly, I don’t know how deep in the algorithm he got, and I can’t be bothered to find out.
While this won’t be true for everyone, I do believe not having tiktok has been better for me all around, and I urge anyone else who’s been considering redownloading it to think good and hard about the effects (both positive and negative) it can bring.
