Mindful scrolling is better than mindless scrolling, maybe because you’re more likely to take a break.
While the new time limit is currently for under-18s only – because it’s more important to keep minors safe when their brains are pliable and impressionable – TikTok alsothat “everyone will soon be able to set their own customised screen time limits for each day of the week and set a schedule to mute notifications”.
Often, of course, stepping away from being constantly online requires more drastic steps than a little nudge from an app. I have a friend who gave her smartphone away in 2019 after realising that Instagram was making her feel bad and overly accessible. She’s used a basic Nokia phone since, and it has made no material difference to her life other than she’s not mechanically swiping in the same way I am and can’t use Uber on nights out.
TikTok may be an inescapable force at present, but I am also tentatively optimistic that culture tends to take a turn when truly necessary. We’ve already seen young people step away from “fake” apps like Instagram, and towards more “authentic” platforms like BeReal. We know that Gen Z are becoming increasingly disillusioned with like-based content, with recentshowing that users between 18 and 25 years old are the only age group to see a decrease in social media use since 2019, bar TikTok.
There’s hope that, if people are starting to feel overly reliant or even anxious on certain platforms, then they won’t use them so much in the long-term. Or maybe I’m being completely delusional. TikTok is
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