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I was hanging out with this late gen Y crowd, and literally everyone had their phones out and were messaging other people in the friend group who weren't currently hanging out. Instead of hanging out, they were messaging others who weren't and might later. Then when those people stop by, they'd start messaging other people they're not with. Now and then they'd look up to say "so and so is doing so and so" to someone, like give an update from the person that wasn't there.

Kinda agree. We fucked society up with phones. I both admire that we can hold such a powerful computer and carry it in our pocket, and hate that it's normalized.

Its one of the filters, of the great filter.

These people have NPC-ified themselves, and they basically have the AI behavior routines of zombies, just ones that can do a slightly more convincing emulation of socializing.

Brain dead by way of vanity and consumerism.

Sorry, turns out that a wide swath of humanity is too dumb to recognize what this stuff does to them, that our technological abilities have evolved way, way faster than our biology has.

We never should have made computers this user friendly. Because, when, you do that, it lowers the barrier of entry/usage down so low that you end up programming the less aware users, moreso than the software.

Not to mention that TikTok, Twitter/X and Facebook are all owned and controlled by delusional narcissist freak anti-social Epstein class people, who openly view normies as dumb cattle who exist to be distracted and surveilled and groomed and conned.

So give them a simulation of socializing, a simulation of culture, a simulation of even rebelling against that culture... so long as they control the black box algorithm, the algo that knows them better than they know themself, the algo that harvests them via either subscription payments or data extraction.

They figured out how to induce drug addiction behavior, without selling an actual drug... they hacked the human brain, via a much more advanced version of basically networked, interactive television.

Legitimately though wtf happened? Before covid I was the weird one for being online all the time, now I'm weird for wanting to have actual conversations now and everyone else is glued to the screen.

Somehow 4chan sounds like a healthier option.

Don’t forget scrolling while driving.

The irony of saying this on 4chan.

Algorithmic flattening will be the death of me. Everything is homogenized and made palatable for the masses, either that or engorged to extremes to capture the last neuron that still has an attention span.

My youngest is always calling out my music as "this is a Tiktok song" ... child, that song is almost older than I am.

Anon has become the boomer.

I just don't like how much video is vertical now.

This is worse than Facebook and Twitter times

It's not. It's exactly the same.

The only difference is that you're getting older, so you're experiencing it more viscerally than when you were ten years younger and didn't know better

And this was 3 years ago.

A solar flare would solve lots of things besides TikTok.

It would cause many problems too, but I'm not sure they're worse than the problems we have now.

I'd settle for getting rid of 'tiktok speak'.

'So my brother uses a lot of dr*gs and I'm worried he's going to buy a pewpew and unalive himself'

That kind of brainrot. It's infecting the rest of the Internet.

Ahh fortunately I'm old and date other people who don't use tiktok either.

Tiktok bullshit is banned on my pihole. Stupid fucking name too, "tiktok". Spy central brain rot.

Deeply melodramatic. Humans have always been and will always be annoying