What is a technological advancement today that you wish never existed?

Technology@kbin.social – 25 points – 1 years ago

For me, I would choose computer viruses.

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I'm not overly keen on the 15 seconds micro-content that sites like TikTok and YouTube (shorts) are pulling. It creates the most densely packed, quickly paced content I've seen and it feels like people are now addicted to quick bursts of info.

It feels like that type of content is doing to reduce people's already awful attention span, I've already had mates who can't read threads, articles and comments because it's too slow, terrible

I have to say, Vine was on to something with 6 seconds. Too short for anything nefarious so it was mostly creative new memes and humor.

also, you can't cover anything in depth in fifteen seconds. Worse by the time you have the lead and the "like me" bullshit out of the way you have what? five seconds of actual content? maybe enough time for a fortnight dance, or something. That's about it.

Massively depends on the content/channel/algorithm though. My friend definitely uses TikTok as a dopamine dispenser for arguably mindless content. On the other hand I've gotten into a sort of mental health improvement/acknowledgment/acceptance of things type of TikTok where I feel like I'm taking a way a lot of small useful insights, even though the videos are only 30-60 seconds long. I keep a note on my phone with the takeaways I've had.

Worse test none of it is memorable. At least not to me.

Definitely agree, I also agree with malware, but with the massive rise in ADHD diagnoses and the widespread use of these micro-content sites/aggregators it just push the issue further.