• mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    Dude, one of my friends that was a university student told me that covid vaccines made you magnetic. He believed 100%, and BTW he studied Physics. His reasoning was that he found it on TikTok, and that most famous people there told him so.

    I know that being stupid cannot be instilled by a social media platform. But a social media can slowly empower your stupidity if by itself the platform mostly presents its users with absurd content.

    There was a flat earth movement on TikTok too, right?

    Posting the same shit to get social credits? Most people don’t even know what they are even posting on tiktok. They follow the trend.

    Yes it’s like this in all platforms, most people follow the trend. But in TikTok the platform main goal is to post videos about trends, like NPCs. Everybody the same.

    A platform goal cannot be the sole purpose of generate trends. That’s like if art was generated in mass production factories.

    Mass production trends are as healthy to your brain as mass produced food is to your metabolism.

    Unschooled people ruling society knowledge because of TikTok.

    We are flooding our universities with dumb brain filling crap, and lowering intellectual capacity of what is supposed to be society peak knowledge (university).

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      8 months ago

      Educated people believed all sorts of silly things long before the internet. It’s not an internet problem or a social media problem, it’s a gullibility problem.