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"The pre-TikTok era of social media was a genuine, full-spectrum privacy disaster. It was, however..."

"... a disaster constructed by domestic companies and exported to the rest of the world (although notably not to China). Digital privacy is a notoriously difficult concept around which to mobilize politically. Nationalism, less so. With TikTok at the center of the discourse, we can expect to encounter the former through the distorting lens of the latter with the help of politicians who, despite a prior blindness to matters of privacy, will have a point.... TikTok is a platform of targeted content and loose ties — a post-social social network that doesn’t rely on your friends to keep you engaged and entertained but rather on 'recommendation,' which is the flip side of surveillance.... Compared to Facebook’s rise, TikTok’s was dazzling but impersonal, the product of a supreme emphasis on content over connections, on breaking out of networks rather than formalizing them. Users’ sense of obligation to one another, though, is what bought Facebook more time at the top. To quit Facebook, however little one uses it, is to sever some sort of contact, and to leave Instagram, however dull it has become, is to know a little less about your friends. A bored or restless TikTok user, however, can simply watch less — only TikTok will notice they’re gone."

२७ टिप्पण्या:

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

You think you can "just watch less" Tik-Tok, but in fact, studies show that you cannot. Tik-Tok is specifically designed to do what those who came before them cannot do.

For example, I'm currently conducting a study of Ann Althouse, to see if she can quit Tik-Tok.

So far, she cannot.

No matter what. I can even warn her to stop. But she cannot.

She belongs to Tik-Tok.

She is a Tok person now. Trapped. She is a Tok. Not even a person any longer.

Just a Tokker.

Forever.

gilbar म्हणाले...

As Buckwheaties said..
Tiktok is a well designed addictive drug
It's made that way intentionally.. Like Fentanyl
Facebook was addictive too.. Like Heroin..
Fentanyl is Many times more potent than Heroine

gilbar म्हणाले...

The fact that you're not interacting with people you know, makes it Easier to become addicted.
I just talking about opiates.. Aren't i?

John henry म्हणाले...

It would be nice to have privacy online but it will never happen. Companies will make all sorts of promises. We all read the 90 page EULAs to see what they promise. You do read them, right? Every couple weeks when they revise them?

Yeah, right.

Even companies that really, really, really, try to preserve our privacy (They are as common as unicorns) get hacked, sold whatever and your info, once private, no longer is. Your DNA, for example, that you willingly gave to Ancestry.com with all their promises of protection, was bought by BlackRock last week. Has BlackRock promised you anything with your DNA? Do you trust them?

Scott Nealy (I think it was) back in the 90s told us we have no expectation of privacy online. Promises may be worse than nothing because they give a false sense of security.

Act like you are working in a fishbowl. Never do anything online you would not wish to see frontpaged on the NY Time or the Berkely Barb.

Screw your (and my) online privacy. It does not exist and there is nothing you can do about it.

Get over it.

John Stop fascism, vote republican Henry

John henry म्हणाले...

Ever send your DNA to 23 and Me?

Do you know where the DNA lab is located? China. What are the chances the CCP does not have a hundred million or more DNA samples of American citizens?

What are the chances they might use that to identify markers that can be attacked biologically without attacking Chinese people? They'd never do that, right? We can trust them, right?

And people were stupid enough to not only give them the DNA, they paid them to take it.

We live in hope. But less and less every day.

John Stop fascism, vote republican Henry

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

TikTok changed the way I communicate. I get to the point right away. I used to converse and email in the pattern of a joke - drawn out set up, drawn out set up, punchline. I never realized how annoying that was until I started watching TikToks.

Lurker21 म्हणाले...

Compared to Facebook’s rise, TikTok’s was dazzling but impersonal, the product of a supreme emphasis on content over connections

That sets a very low bar for what constitutes "content."

Somebody told me that in China TikTok serves educational and informative purposes, and the Chinese laugh at the way we debase ourselves with silly challenges and antics on TikTok. I do not know if that is true.

gilbar म्हणाले...

Does anyone (any one, at all?) think that Professor Althouse could go 72 hrs without her Tiktok?
28 days?

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Watching TikTok is a lot faster than watching television. Television watchers watch for hours and hours. You can get your TikTok watching down in 10 minutes. Maybe 15 or 20. It's a trifle.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"That sets a very low bar for what constitutes "content.""

But somehow it's a lot better than Hollywood movies.

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

That magazine article needs an editor. What a mess...

Ampersand म्हणाले...

I like being able to decide quickly whether I'm wasting time. It's a contrast from Amazon Tolkien and HBO everything.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

Ann Althouse said...

Watching TikTok is a lot faster than watching television. Television watchers watch for hours and hours. You can get your TikTok watching down in 10 minutes. Maybe 15 or 20. It's a trifle.

Unless you're like my step-daughter and have ADD. Then you sit and watch little short video after little short video until you hit sensory overload. Then you can't sleep and wander around the house watching more Tik-Tok videos.

MikeD म्हणाले...

Since there's virtually an uncountable number of TikTok's produced on a daily basis I'm curious as to which ones, and what the criteria is, the CCP tells our hostess she/her would be interested in?

walter म्हणाले...

"Watching TikTok is a lot faster than watching television. "
Also..a completely different level of attention span.
Great foe ADHD, I suppose.

gilbar म्हणाले...

Ann Althouse said...
Watching TikTok is a lot faster than watching television.

the Exact Same, can be said about shooting opiates as opposed to ingesting them

MadTownGuy म्हणाले...

Ann Althouse said...

["That sets a very low bar for what constitutes "content.""]

"But somehow it's a lot better than Hollywood movies."

That's also a pretty low bar.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

When DirecTV was new it had a feature like TikTok and would record new or different shows that it gauged were “like” the shows we DVRed. We liked Top Chef on Bravo and so it served up Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on the same channel. DirecTV was right. We liked that show too. Over the next couple years that feature of the tuner/DVR disappeared. Other customers didn’t like recommended shows. We thought it was cool. Maybe others were offended. My point is that Althouse seems to appreciate the recommendations she serves up to us and self-limits her exposure to the app and I kinda wish AT&T would bring back that suggestion feature. It would be the first improvement in DTV since Hughes sold out to Ma Bell.

Randomizer म्हणाले...

I have a separate FB account for my former students, and have hundreds of "Friends" that I don't interact with much, but like to check in on. They all keep an FB account to check in on their aunts and uncles. The Facebook algorithm is sufficiently abusive that most of us don't like spending time there. Like most of my former students, my account isn't closed, but nearly abandoned.

TikTok seems like a silly time waster.

Personal blogs may be the way to go. No pesky moderators with vague policies and uneven enforcement and no algorithms to manipulate the user's attention.

Kai Akker म्हणाले...

---It's a trifle.

Textbook. : (

I'd criticize but I just watched one of the ones you put up in the other post.

Awful; and further evidence that the decision to avoid these is correct.

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

The question is, is TikTok recommending videos to Ann Althouse based on her preferences or based on what she thinks is shareable with her readership. TikTok may only think it knows her. And what of us who only watch the TikToks served up by Althouse? TikTok doesn’t really know us, or does it?

Kay म्हणाले...

I think the reason I don’t like tiktok is that I prefer more long form content. But i do enjoy the ones people send me as well as the ones that get posted on this blog.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"Awful; and further evidence that the decision to avoid these is correct."

Some people love them.

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

“If you use my link and go over and watch, is the Chinese government getting useful information from you? If you worry about that, don't go, but I would suggest you ought to worry about other things too, especially about what our government might be doing, which seems much more likely to affect you.”
It’s probable that the Chinese government is using its information gathering systems to infiltrate our governmental, educational, and military institutions.
So those worries may be linked.

Anthony म्हणाले...

I've never used or even installed it because it's a spying app for the Chinese. Period.

gilbar म्हणाले...

If you use my link and go over and watch but don't sign up for an account, does TT notice you?

if you're not using a VPN, then YES! YES They DO!

rwnutjob म्हणाले...

My friend, who used to dox terrorists for Homeland Security, and has a master's in cyber security, calls it a CCP Swiss cheese app.