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
    8•1 year ago

    Did you feel the same way about Vine?

    I’m a millennial and don’t use tiktok, but things change and they’re supposed to. Your argument started off good, but immediately went sideways. Privacy is an actual problem, your beef with gen z is not. You sound like an old man shaking his cane at the sky. We can all cry over how much we miss AIM and Myspace, but they’re gone. This shit won’t last forever either.

    • Cam
      -3•1 year ago

      Did you feel the same way about Vine?

      Yes, however TikTok is more successful in adoption than Vine. Only a few girls I knew were hooked on Vine.

      Privacy is an actual problem, your beef with gen z is not. You sound like an old man shaking his cane at the sky. We can all cry over how much we miss AIM and Myspace, but they’re gone. This shit won’t last forever either.

      Yeah I get it. I sound like a old cranky man. Every generation has its flaws. If I have beef with zoomers, then I guess I have beef with every generation alive. I just see TikTok is not helping zoomers. Zoomers seem to be the most subverted generation. Zoomers were raised by society to be the best consumer generatiom that ever lived. Corporate America has achieved creating a generation who is bad with money, chasing identity, wanting status and applause without doing the work, bombarded with ads, very depressed and riddle with mental illness, and very lonely. TikTok is just adding gas to the fire.

      Of course not all zoomers are like this. However many zoomers I met just simply fall under these things I listed above and I interact with many zoomers in my day to day life.

      I am not for censorship, so I do oppose censoring Tiktok. Unfortunately I have no solutions to offer, all I see is a problem.

      • HotDogFingies
        4•1 year ago

        Have you actually had a conversation with anyone from gen z? Watched any of the content they produce? They’re radically anti-capitalist and are well aware they’re living in a dystopia. Of course they have mental health issues. Look at the world they’re inheriting from us and tell me why they should feel any differently.

        But maybe they should just swallow their feelings and beat their girlfriends because that’s what their forefathers did? Feelings are icky.

        And they’re bad because they’d rather make money pursuing their passions than grinding for some pedophilic billionaire? Get real. If they were left to their own devices, this world would be closer to a utopia than humanity has ever been before.

        Also, they’re funny as fuck, creative, inventive, and wonderfully culturally aware. Love Gen z.

        Any issues they have can be attributed to two things:

        1. Humanity as a whole is dumb and violent.
        2. We screwed them over. Don’t blame the victim.

        Edit: Here, let me provide a nice little example for you. I guess just be glad you’ll die before my children? Positivity! :)

        • Cam
          -3•1 year ago

          Chill out! This is what I mean by gen z being subverted. So many of then think climate change is man made and just give a fuck about the wrong things. Gen z heart in many ways is in the right place but their intentions are flawed. I do know some based zoomers and they are good friends who yes I talk to very often. The gen z attitude toward their bosses is understandable to a good extent, as long their reasoning for it is being red pilled on how their is a sociopathic mindset in the wealthy elites.