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Early Gen Z here.

A. TikTok is not the internet, nor the new internet.

B. I find short form video rather annoying. I do like doomscrolling but I always preferred it to be mostly quiet. TikTok/short form video is a lot of things but not quiet. Why should I install TikTok when it doesn’t serve me a type of content I like and when there are lots of other platforms that do (like this one)?

Imagine one day an app comes along that only lets you upload videos that are at least four hours long, and it becomes incredibly popular among kids and teens. Would somebody be stubborn and out of touch for not using it?

I would hate to be that stubborn

spoken like a true propagandist!

"Refuse to use tiktok", seriously listen to yourself.

Tiktok is not some kind of new paradigm. It's yet another social network, one with an annoying gimmick (that it didn't even invent). A gimmick that makes it harder to do meaningful content and easier to have complete assholes as its superstars.

It's just a shitty company offering a shitty product.

What are you talking about? TikTok isn’t the internet, just like Facebook wasn’t and MySpace wasn’t.

TikTok is like Snapchat. 13 years ago Snapchat was the cool app all the kids were using and making fun of older people for not getting it. 13 years later and it’s still just shitty text messaging, with the only people using it being those who cared a decade ago who got their family and friends to sign up just for them.

TikTok is just shitty Youtube and in 10 years will be replaced by something else. Plus, what exactly am I out of touch with? My reddit feed is already crammed with crappy TikTok videos. Take something mildly amusing with the volume off that would be moderately amusing with sound. Replace that sound with the most godawful music you can think of. Now repost it 100 times with the image cropped to oblivion and half the screen taken up by an emoji or some random mobile game. Woo yeah, that’s the future of content, let me tell you.

Every time some other social media pushes short form content on me, its just reposted tiktoks anyway and its all garbage. Why should I go straight to the landfill for content I don't care for?

Are you equating a specific companies product with an overarching technology that allows generalized connections between people across the world?

TikTok aren't even on the same scale... TikTok is part of the internet. TikTok is a very narrow usage of it. One based entirely on sucking people into addictive vapid content.

Older millennial here. I don't use TT because it's old hat and it doesn't interest me at all. Wasn't into Vine, not into TT.

Also, there's so many reposts on Lemmy and from my friends that I've never needed to download it.

I think it's not that I'm refusing to use it, it's more like I've never needed to in order to function and enjoy life.

Probably same reason for Boomers.

One platform that dominates for a handful of years at most isn't that important

Lmao one social media site is not as much of a change in the human experience as going from no internet to internet was. I’ve seen every form of internet communication there’s been. TikTok is just not my preferred form of interfacing with the internet, it’s not that revolutionary, and like every other website or app it will fall out of vogue sooner or later

To be honest, I'm older cohort Gen Z, never used tiktok. I found that even fucking YouTube Shorts was too addicting, and didn't like the effect it had on me. Eventually switched to using NewPipe and eventually ReVanced just so I could get rid of YouTube shorts.

I dunno, I get why people would refuse to use tiktok.

If you won't try it then maybe that's true. But I tried it, even gave it a full hour because it's supposed to take 45 minutes for the algorithm to learn what you want to see, but even after an hour it was still showing me things i had little to no interest in.