r/technology • u/MrKillaMidnight • Jan 19 '25

Social Media TikTok is down in the US

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346961/tiktok-shut-down-banned-in-the-us
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u/LucklessCope Jan 19 '25

Well there's a study on how our attention span gets worse and worse. I can see why young people would prefer being on a platform that basically only focuses on short stories.

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u/arifyre Jan 19 '25

it isn't only short stories though, the majority of the content i consumed on there was in the 3-5 minute range, if not 5-10 minutes

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u/arifyre Jan 19 '25

i was mostly writing my comment to explain that it isn't just the 15 second videos people think it is. i know ten minutes is short form, i know three to five minutes is short form. i apologize for writing my initial comment in a way that seems to imply anything else.