[kyledrake]

Tiktok is not heroin. Tiktok does not make you vomit if you quit using it. Tiktok does not give you a 5 year life expectancy. You can't overdose on it and die. Tiktok does not make you rob a grandma to get your next fix of it.

I hate social media more than most people do, and I don't use tiktok and don't think anyone else should, but can we all please stop comparing a mobile phone app to using heroin? It's misinformed and dangerous to make rhetorical comparisons like that.

[DudeOpotomus]

Only people with no actual life experience with drugs or drug users would make such an asinine and overtly hyperbolic statement as that.

Everyone knows Facebook/Meta is actually the heroin. A product intentionally designed to steal your life and enrich its owners. Duh

[azemetre]

It's like how the Sackler's did everything they can to make opioids more addictive and increase profit margins, there is virtually no difference between this and Zuckerberg hiring psychologists to make his apps more addictive.

[MangoToupe]

Do you have any life experience with drugs?

Is this a satirical post? I'm really struggling to comprehend it coherently

Did you mean nicotine?

> Only people with no actual life experience with drugs or drug users would make such an asinine and overtly hyperbolic statement as that.

Ma'am withdrawing from tiktok cannot kill you. Consuming tiktok cannot kill you. Tiktok does not make you shit yourself

[nutjob2]

You're right, heroin is merely physical addiction. TikTok is psychological, emotional and social crack for young malleable minds. Produced by the subjects of, and in cahoots with, an aggressive totalitarian regime that has about as much respect for human life as Oracle has for its customers.

Also assuming your heroin isn't tainted it isn't toxic and you can have a normal life expectancy.

Can we all stop pretending it's a not an issue?

[Matticus_Rex]

Not comparing it to heroin (or crack) is not saying it isn't an issue.

[johnnyanmac]

>TikTok is psychological, emotional and social crack for young malleable minds

The US did a good job of taking those away, so it's hard to complain when others come in to fill that void.

[expedition32]

Most of the toxic bullshit comes from America though.

China just wants us to buy cheap Chinese crap.

[chrisweekly]

I empathize w/ your take. I've occasionally responded similarly to the thoughtless use of "cancer" in shallow analogies, as a survivor who's also watched it kill several people I dearly love. I don't have direct experience w/ heroin, but the film "Requiem For A Dream" was unforgettable and helps me better understand its evil.

Unfortunately, whether it's a deadly drug or a deadly disease, these casual references are unlikely to drop from public discourse anytime soon. And I personally would rather live in a world where insensitive or potentially-triggering language is gently discouraged, than one where the pendulum swings too far the other way towards censorship or radical left woke cancel culture. Words can be unintentionally callous without being "micro-aggressions". (And I say that as a liberal progressive.)

Thanks for posting in a personal and persuasive manner, instead of anger. Yours is the more effective approach anyway.

[johnnyanmac]

>these casual references are unlikely to drop from public discourse anytime soon.

I'd hope to hold this community to a higher standard than "the public discourse".

[doublerabbit]

Metaphorically speaking, Tiktok is heroin.

>Tiktok does not give you a 5 year life expectancy

12 year old life expectancy then?

> The lawsuit, filed in the US claims that Isaac Kenevan, 13, Archie Battersbee, 12, Julian "Jools" Sweeney, 14, and Maia Walsh, 13, died while attempting the so-called "blackout challenge". Four children died because of, compared to one, who injects?

Heroin invokes addiction, TikTok does that. Heroin can cause physical dependency, TikTok brews this. Heroin is highly addictive, isn't TikTok to the young viewer?

I still hold my point that TikTok can be distilled and viewed as a form of Digital Heroin. Evidence shows.

How else do you describe it's nature?

[sallveburrpi]

Metaphorically everything can be anything

TikTok is in no way like heroin, stop using that false analogy