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TikTok
Posted: 31 Jan 2025, 20:58
by Pub Bigot
What a load of old shit. Nearly every bird I know, including old birds are glued to TikTok and the banal videos that eat their attention spans. Not content with watching untalented morons that all use the same annoying sounds, it gets shoved in my face.
Ban the fucking thing.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 02 Feb 2025, 14:14
by wils
There's a lot of West Ham on there too. Just can't link to it easy, but here's someone posting on Twitter about West Ham TikTok.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 12:52
by Pub Bigot
honky cat" wrote: ↑01 Feb 2025, 12:21
Its not just birds and old birds. Its men as well in their 40s 50s 60s. I live in a rural place, everyone knows each other. The bus driver keeps asking me am i on tik tok and showing me videos of donkeys singing and dancing and other bollocks. And then he'd start a normal-ish convo about sport, politics, pub etc. Its a brainwashing machine. One day the trigger video will post and they'll turn into cannibal zombies. Avoid.
I always think men who like it are a bit fruity.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 12:21
by honky cat
Its not just birds and old birds. Its men as well in their 40s 50s 60s. I live in a rural place, everyone knows each other. The bus driver keeps asking me am i on tik tok and showing me videos of donkeys singing and dancing and other bollocks. And then he'd start a normal-ish convo about sport, politics, pub etc. Its a brainwashing machine. One day the trigger video will post and they'll turn into cannibal zombies. Avoid.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 12:05
by Bungo
Mad Dog" wrote: ↑01 Feb 2025, 10:33
Not on any of it. This is as close to social media as I get. I was on Facebook for years but all you see are suggested pages (for other fucking football teams, began stuff and flat fucking earth) and adverts. It was supposed to be for keeping in touch with people that either lived away or that I sort of like but don't want to actually talk to.
I can scroll 50 posts and not see anything from anyone I know. So I binned it a year ago
I enjoy the fact that I have no friends at all on FB (yep, not too dissimilar to real life). I was amazed that initially FB suggested friends, some of whom I do know, and some that are friends of my kids with whom I have zero connections. After a while rejecting all of these suggestions, it has now got the point of suggesting random people from around the world, none of whom I have any connection to whatsoever.
I feel that I just may have bested at least one algorithm.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 11:06
by Russ of the BML
I am still convinced that Tik-Tok is a government experiment to see how fucking low human society can be be taken.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 10:42
by only1billybonds
I had fb for a while, mainly to keep an eye on my daughter. Once she got to an age where it didn't matter what I saw,I binned it. Think this was about 2013 and not been near it since.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 10:33
by Mad Dog
Not on any of it. This is as close to social media as I get. I was on Facebook for years but all you see are suggested pages (for other fucking football teams, began stuff and flat fucking earth) and adverts. It was supposed to be for keeping in touch with people that either lived away or that I sort of like but don't want to actually talk to.
I can scroll 50 posts and not see anything from anyone I know. So I binned it a year ago
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 10:29
by Manuel
I have a FB account, but never post on it, just use it for info and yes to be nosey sometimes
No interest in tik tok, instagram, twitter etc. My blower is about 8 years old.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 10:22
by ,
I never got any further than friends reunited.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 09:50
by Mike Oxsaw
It can't be that long before some first-to-know-needy cսnt sues their social media platform for not informing them about something unexpected or unanticipated that's not yet happened.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 08:54
by only1billybonds
I don't have FB,insta or tik tok. I read X ( twitter) but have never posted on there,it's handy for a lot of archived comedy/football/music clips and it is the place where most news seems to break first. I guess this is a form of social media and engageing with you cunts is plenty for me.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 07:49
by THUNDERCLINT
Perry Nium" wrote: ↑01 Feb 2025, 00:03
Unfortunately, the algorithm seems to have targeted me with relentless Russian and Chinese propaganda.
That's all it exists to do, everything else is just a mechanism to facilitate that.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 07:45
by Bungo
Delighted and very proud (and smug) that I don't have it, have never seen it, and as far as I know, nobody I know has ever looked at it in when I've been with them.
Seems like a record worth maintaining?
Edit: Should add that this is also true of Instagram. I was on Twitter but dumped it a year or so ago due to it being beyond shite.
Still on FB as there are many notifications from bands and stuff that I like.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 07:18
by Pub Bigot
only1billybonds wrote: ↑01 Feb 2025, 07:12
PB.
Wasn't signalling you out, I was generalising.
Not a big fan of banning stuff unless it's really extreme and harmful, I firmly believe in ignoring shit that I don't like/winds me up.
I definitely think it’s harmful, ie, quick dopamine hits and draining attention spans. My post is mostly jest though, but I genuinely hate it.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 07:12
by only1billybonds
PB.
Wasn't signalling you out, I was generalising.
Not a big fan of banning stuff unless it's really extreme and harmful, I firmly believe in ignoring shit that I don't like/winds me up.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 07:03
by Pub Bigot
only1billybonds wrote: ↑01 Feb 2025, 00:13
Very simple solution to this.
Uninstall it!
I don’t have it. I’d rather scrape my balls on broken glass that have it on my phone.
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 00:13
by only1billybonds
Very simple solution to this.
Uninstall it!
Re: TikTok
Posted: 01 Feb 2025, 00:03
by Perry Nium
There's every topic on there and it quickly becomes engrossing. Especially if, like me, you can't help engaging with stupid people in the comments.
Unfortunately, the algorithm seems to have targeted me with relentless Russian and Chinese propaganda. So I only go on very occasionally for the sake of my sanity.
