TikTok very bad?

I don’t have this app but I just watched a 3min video on TikTok through my desktop browser, it was simply someone talking about a specific meditation technique, the video had these shiny effect and some filters on and I felt strange sensations while watching, when I stopped watching and even now after over 30 min I still feel strange sensations in my head from that video, I’m suspecting I have been exposed to some sort of subliminal messaging, and I’m pretty sure it’s not coming from the content itself but the overlays and whatnot.

I would steer clear from watching anything on that platform if I were you, I always had a very bad intuitive feeling about this app and I regret having spent even 3min on it, anyone else ever experienced something similar?

Be careful out there.

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Never used and never will !

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Never used it and have been warned in the past not to go there… although that was by my ex bf who was very narcissistic

My mom and others have told me to start a platform there thinking I’d be a success…

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Good for business, bad for brain. 🥷

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My 14-year-old son is on there often and I see how it doesn’t help his ADHD

Almost all the scrolling apps are having a hipnotizing effect, just to catch you to spend time on them.

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You should see this, even if its not directly about tik tok, they use the same principles.
@7empest @Golden.Heart.Light

Frightening stuff

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My youngest loved that show. She’s doing okay!

Oddly enough, my son destroyed my daughter’s cocomelon doll before. “JJ”

Edit: Peppa Pig had my daughter being super sassy

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@7empest I’d highly recommend the book “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt. Your intuition is right, ADHD and mental illness in general has SKYROCKETED since 2012, which is the year IG sold to FB and went from 10 million to 90 million regular users. You can refer to the book for an A-to-Z argument proving the social media/mental health link is causal, not corrolary, but it’s an incredible book about how childhood has been transforming since the 90’s in a variety of ways, not just technologically.

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I just got teary eyed seeing this, wth. Im going to get the hardcover copy.

Thank you 🥹❤️‍🩹

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This.

And ”Dopamine” by Daniel Lieberman.
I guess social media these days are using smart ways to trigger dopamine.

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Most of tiktok won’t try to force any subs on you or whatever. But that’s what you can expect if you teach your algorithm that you’re interested in creators who talk about similar stuff. Clicking on gurus who will teach you their weird unique nonsense. “Let me hypnotize you in 2 minutes” or “listen to this frequency” videos etc. I’m not surprised that you were exposed to idiots who try to trick you this way.

And it’s not just tiktok. You’d probably eventually get the same result even if you did the same thing on instagram or twitter or youtube since they all support video posts. I feel really skeptical about these kinds of creators. Just don’t follow them. There no way for you to know which ones are pushing their weird flawed propaganda and who is not. Just use subs and ideally don’t have social media apps on your phone. Or follow something more normal idk cute cat videos who cares.

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