Beware: TikTok (And Other Apps) Are Re-Wiring Your Brain
Cue the generation of jacked-up dopamine, crippled attention span, and zero motivation to leave the couch
“We become what we witness.” — William Blake
While Blake was certainly onto something with the notion that the things we witness can deeply influence us as individuals, he couldn’t possibly have understood that the images we absorb are also capable of altering the physical structure of our brains.
To put it another way, what we see not only shapes us inexorably and irreversibly, but — in the case of many of the apps we use today (and often multiple times per day)— we are also being shaped neuro-chemically.
Today, TikTok has over 1,000,000,000 users, including over 25% of the US population.
And that’s just TikTok!
If you’re somewhat active among the array of different social medium platforms, then you might have caught onto the fact that many of these apps are becoming very, very similar — in a very eery way.
Addictive Algorithms And AI
The algorithm behind TikTok is designed to keep you coming back for more.
