I visited TikTok.com at 11 pm Eastern time last night:
I wasn’t a regular TikTok user, but I don’t remember any education- or work-related content there. If Americans aren’t viewing TikTok anymore will there be a huge boost in American productivity and GDP as a result of all the TikTok addicts doing something useful instead?
Productivity period is short lived, it is coming back online after Trump assurance
This post didn’t age well: it seems they are enabling it again! WTF is going on?
I actually support banning of Chinese social media – they banned American corporations. Shouldn’t be lopsided.
A few years ago, The Information (sort of what Variety is to Hollywood, just for Silicon Valley), had published a profile of up-and-coming Chinese startups. One of them was Musical.ly, the predecessor of TikTok. They asked the CEO wht the service was not offered in China itself, and their frank reply was “Chinese kids are expected to study.
We can’t blame external factors too much, though. Chinese kids dream of becoming astronauts (taikonauts). Ours did in the 60s, but now they dream of becoming influencers or youtubers, i.e. parasites chasing get-rich-quick schemes.