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How Twitter lost its place as the global town square (www.washingtonpost.com)
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A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have been surveys showing young people get information from TikTok even if it is a bad source.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2022/06/29/tiktok-as-a-source-of-information-for-gen-z-and-what-it-means-for-brands/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I feel old when I think “kids these days” but I do wonder if there is a deep, fundamental problem with TikTok, Reels, YouTube shorts, and such. I taught in the HS for awhile this past year and I felt like the students had a very short attention span. How are they supposed to give sustained focus to learn something when they are training their brain for short, 90 second (or shorter) bursts?