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LeftInTX

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32. Tik Tok is the worst because it caters to young people and pays them to make videos.

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 04:07 AM

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It literally encourages people to say sensational things, just for clicks. They make up stores and dox people. One woman was obsessed with murders in Idaho and claimed a professor was involved. She was sued. But I saw this over and over during a case here in San Antonio. People from all over the country, were "paid" by TikTok to be "psychics" They blamed all sorts of innocent people for crimes.

Overall, I think SM is good, but it is so freak'n abused. With twitter, I get the info I need and get out of their. That's because twitter was designed to quickly spread information. It wasn't designed to spend hours scrolling.

FB is different and more addicting. However, it does offer connections to people. I haven't been on since the "Musk announcement". But I've been active on it for over 10 years and my experience has been positive. I really haven't encountered RWingers unless I end up on a "Texas be like", "Texas memes" page. Some of the Armenian groups have right wingers. However, our Armenian genealogy is strict, "No politics". My gardening groups have the same policies etc.

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