Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
- American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
- Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
- The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
Remember these people are ill. Social media addiction will be studied for years to come. Bashing these kind of people will only push them to these apps and worsen the problem. The more honest we are, the faster this will turn around. Call these people sick to their face and watch them writhe and squirm as they try and justify it. It looks ugly but it will do them a load of help compared to nothing.
If making Mr Weebl laugh at my TikTok comments is wrong I don’t wanna be right.
You’re on social media right now.
It’s not the same category of social media though.
You’ve got (sorted by best to worst)
Each of these can be called social media, but they serve different purposes and some are more harmful than others
You’re sick, he’s sick, we’re all sick! SICK!
True, but engagement isn’t gamified here.
People do things on their free time. Stop calling everything people do “an addiction”.
5 hours tiktok scrolling is an addiction
I mean did they have something better to do?