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Why don't they remove oxygen too?
I'd suggest banning mobile phones.
Faraday cage bathrooms?
We could simply eat the children and then they won't make tiktoks.
What a modest proposal!
I don't think you realize how fitting that analogy actually is. Kids so addicted to tiktok that it's as essential to them as air. Pretty depressing.
I hate tiktok, I just don't think removing mirrors is the way to go.
I don't think it would be effective, I just found a certain amount of irony in the analogy.
I do think smartphones should probably be banned in schools, but that's another topic.
And why is that?
I mean, it was obviously a hyperbole, that they need it as much as air, but TikTok (like many other social media platforms) has addictive qualities.
The first ingredient for addiction is to somehow cause joy without requiring much effort to be put in. Whether that's heroin, sugar or funny memes, short-term they will cause happy brain chemicals to be released.
If you're completely abstinent, you'd need to put in work + achieve something, to get those happy brain chemicals, so it requires more effort.
(That's only short-term. Long-term, having achievements to look back to, can instill more happiness, but it can be hard for our brains to conceptualize long-term.)
One way in particular that TikTok et al are similar to an addictive medium, is that scrolling through posts is a bit like a slot machine. Since the order of posts is largely random, you never quite know, if the next scroll is going to have the funniest meme, much like each pull on a slot machine might have you winning money.
As such, even if you're 'losing' most of the time, you'll just keep scrolling, hoping for that random win.
Why not start with something easy instead of trying to terraform a planet.