Everyone over 30 has no idea how popular TikTok actually is. It’s at least an order of magnitude more powerful than it’s predecessors like Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube.
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Drinking and driving also very popular.
I’d much rather prefer to be around moving vehicles where the driver was hammered drunk or high than constantly looking down at their phone. But I’d imagine driving drunk while also binge watching tik tok would also be bad.
In my feed I mostly just see queer and trans people supporting each other, news and live feeds of things like Cop City that don’t get discussed here, cute memes, weird memes, and friends.
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We’re allowed to ban both.
Yeah I see mostly sports because I stick to my list. But the toxic swamp creeps in sometimes.
My twitter usage has dropped to almost nothing. I think I have replaced it mostly with Reddit. For sports retweets are very common on Reddit so that gets me most of what I care about.
My social media uses:
- Tik Tok (I will scroll for a bit at night before going to bed)
- Reddit (90% sports related)
- Twitter (mix of politics and sports but really use infrequently now except to copy links to post places like here
)
I don’t use any other social media, and some may argue Reddit is not social media.
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I’ve never even tried TikTok because the idea of autoplaying videos after being on the internet for ~30 years is enough to turn me way off
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I’ve always thought Reddit is best positioned to replace Twitter. Pretty much the same thing, just allowing people to post to a universal forum rather than a sub with a character limit.
Is the Reddit app easier to use than the website? I’m not a redditor but I’ve always found the website super clunky and worthless when I get linked there from google searching a question.
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I dunno about that:
I think reddit has one thing that makes it extremely difficult to get people to use: it isn’t personal in any way. You don’t follow friends, only see people you care about, organize events (as core functionalities). The olds will never use it without their peer group communicating to them directly through it (also a challenge for Twitter)
I use a third party app called Apollo that I find is much easier to use than the website,
Reddit weirdly has features that are hard to access in third party apps and there are like two different websites, one of them a legacy website.
But for reading and posting Apollo works for me. I am trying to remember if I had much of a learning curve. I signed up for Reddit in 2012 but never used it until 2021.
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I hope they keep some kind of Old Person version of Spotify where it serves it’s original intended purpose of just allowing me to easily and digitally sort an play from a music catalogue with a low price. I don’t really need any additional “content” other than the music I am paying to listen to.
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It is weird how none of them ever come close to getting the engine that makes tiktok run, right.
Horizontal videos you scroll through is actually an atrocious use of modern technology. Tiktok excels in spite of that, not because of it. Instagram and YouTube both copy the framework of tiktok already, and both suck.
I’m a fairly terrible with tech millennial and I find Reddit totally unreadable due to formatting.
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If you’re reading Reddit using www.reddit.com instead of old.reddit.com, you’re doing it wrong.
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I’m a great with tech Gen X’er and I find Reddit totally unreadable due to formatting.
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The key to reading reddit is to find a good third party app and never read on browser.
Reddit Sync is my go to