A World Without Tik Tok

It is amazing what can bring Democrats and Republicans together. There are too many social media sites. If Tik Tok went away tomorrow my life would continue as it already is.

Vine went away. Nothing ages worse than technology. I watched Little Black Book to reflect on how ancient Blackberry seems now. The movie was surprisingly good and we lost Brittany Murphy too soon.

Tik Tok is trying to create positivity campaigns about people who started businesses where they help children to learn how read. They don't want to show the mental health of teenagers suggested they watch bulimia videos.

Most of what I see is foolishness. People who point at words, bad dancing and weak attempts at humor: there was a man I had not connected with who made videos. He spoke to the audience and seemed like the kind of guy worth meeting.

One day he switched to Tik Tok videos shared on LinkedIn (just like pornography, it comes to me whether I ask to see it or not.) and there was less socializing. Suddenly a man around forty seemed very old as he tried to shorten his message. He was like George Jefferson when he took up disco dancing.

I can refer to The Jeffersons to this day. How quickly would Tik Tok be forgotten? When Parler was mentioned during the January 6th Commission I had completely forgotten about that social media site.

American sites may sell your data as well. Chinese manipulation is not good no matter what their lobbyists say. It is interesting how everyone came together to ban Tik Tok which may or may not happen and they cannot agree on background checks which could prevent the next mass shooting.

Time is a limited commodity. Many of LinkedIn's "New Features" are designed to keep users on the site longer. If you really want to be on the site longer; read my articles. My format is writing. Not video and certainly not prefabricated humor videos where I push words away.

Tik Tok wants to keep people on their site long enough to farm their data. Is compromising your security worth it to see silly videos? I have not logged on. What people post from that site does not make me want to visit that site.

If it "Magically goes away" some other site will rise up. Probably with more vapid videos and people making bigger fools of themselves. It might lead LinkedIn to revive Stories.

A connection was not aware there was a Stories option. I never watched one. Articles are evergreen so the concept of videos that would self destruct in twenty-four hours did not interest me.

Maybe "New Features" age worse than technology. Heck, bring back LinkedIn Pulse and make Groups relevant instead of ghost towns. It is anyone's guess whether Tik Tok will survive. If you don't like it, don't use it.