Not to mention voluntarily installing some of the worst spyware…
The only “resources” on tiktok that might actually help, are just videos of users giving the viewer general words of affirmation and support. And it’s not gonna fix you; it would just boost your mood a little and maybe get you out of a slump.
This is like telling a crack head that there is an awesome support group for addiction in this dilapidated crack house down the street.
That’s precisely my reaction. Shorts is like damn crack. I look up after two hours, “Shit, I have to get up in a couple hours”
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I’m not sure if this was on purpose, but this comment complaining about run on sentences has one period. I love it.
Imma need a TL;DR on this one probably.
Anti- Tik tok instant upvote 😎 lol
I’m sure 1 in 100 TikToks are probably good, but I just can’t make it through the amount of bad videos on there… the good stuff gets shattered on other platforms anyway.
By the way, I was helping a buddy job hunting… holy cow, TikTok has a huge number of open jobs, like 650 in Seattle alone.
This place is full to the brim with 40 year old boomers.
TikTok bad, upvotes to the left.
‘I have a gambling problem’
‘The casino has lots of resources that can help problem gamblers’
Absolute madness.
I mean… they do they can ban you for life… so…
I love “misinformation vortex”. Too true
i know people love to shit on tiktok and a lot of it is fucking garbage, but there’s also little nuggets of incredible gold on there. i’ve gotten so many game changing little hacks from there
PLUS what makes it really unique imo is how immersive video is – it allows for so much more frank discussion and normalization of mental illness when you can see the person and hear their voice. i’ve personally found so many great videos on like adult loneliness and coping with being alone – and it’s so wonderful to experience, seeing real, normal looking people going thru it with you, instead of the implication everyone is a sad loser gaming in the dark or whatever
@_number8_ @db0 there are nuggets but you’ve got to wade through so much garbage to find it. By garbage I mean that crap you didn’t ask for and the people that think they have helpful #ADHD information, but they don’t. By my own fault, I use it as a dopamine slot machine at night and can lose 3 hours like nothing. So I had to take it off my phone.
Memes and shitpost can only get you so far. Plus, it’s not a very professional thing to do, like fidget toys. Only working on ways to remain focused and taking medication can help adhd.
People do that shit with YouTube too.
Me: “I’m looking for resources on this technology.”
Them: “Here watch this 1 hour YouTube video from a random influencer who you can trust. Just ignore his ads to buy crypto.”
Or stuff like
Me- mentions in passing that I have a chronic illness
Them- watch this 2 hour rambling video about a completely different condition and you’ll be cured
Me- no, that would be like telling a paraplegic to watch a video about diabetes and then they’ll no longer be paralyzed
Them- I was just trying to help, you just want to be in pain for the pity party
Me: “I’ve gotten so bad at retaining focus when watching a video that it’s sometimes difficult to even finish songs”
Them: “this 3 hour lecture by Professor Bland and this 5 hour Fortnite stream session from Immortal Wombat have some good tips!”
Yes! Why is it like this? I hate when people tell me to watch some video essay on a disorder - like why the fuck am I listening to some random person on youtube with no credibility??
Can relate. It’s crazy-making the way so many people link some bullshit YouTube video as if it were a credible source for anything.
I feel like its usually accompanied by things like “this person did a deep dive on this subject, you should watch this!”
Like… I can spend 6 hours doing a deep dive myself?
“I think my phone is more interesting than gardenwork”
Bro that’s ADHD!
“I sometimes forget where i put my keys”
That’s ADHD for sure you should get medsOn ADHD-TikTok everything is ADHD
I was about to comment something rude, until I read the last line.
THATS ADHD!!!
I was about to comment something but then
I feel like it was pretty obviously taking the piss regardless.
Thank you! I’m on The struggle bus as is, I’m not trying to put a brick on the gas pedal.
For someone who’s suspicious. Any links or tips? The community page was thin as f.
It was a meme version of this article which caused me to seek a formal diagnosis.
https://themighty.com/topic/adhd/icnu-william-dodson-adhd-motivation/
Did you get help? I’m scared even my wife doubts me.
It took me about a year and a half to go from having a diagnosis to actually doing anything about it. Like it took my career going off the rails to take the diagnosis from the specialist to my family doctor.
My wife was skeptical at first, but now is very supportive. And to be fair it was about 10 years between my first inkling and the diagnosis so I suppose it’s fair to say that I was also skeptical at first.
I’m now on my second medication and in counseling. I’d say it’s only kinda working. The most effective thing has been to set things up to take advantage of urgency/accountability.
I prefer this misinformation vortex
idk why but i never got tiktok. the all-powerful mystical algorithm that hijacks your brain just didn’t work on me. it’s all politics bullshit and lame facebook memes.
hell, the fedi (both lemmy and the microblog-verse) has “wasted” more of my lifespan overall than tiktok.
If you told it you didn’t like that content it would just try something else. Or searched your interests so it knows what you’re looking for. My feed is full of only my interests 99.9% of the time. Everyone complaining about only getting cringy content is really telling on themselves here lol
Everyone complaining about only getting cringy content is really telling on themselves here lol
even in the deepest, darkest, secret-est parts of my soul i have no interest in any content (a) in Arabic and (b) of imams. i can’t even understand a word of Arabic and am not religious, yet apparently that was the most up to date profile tiktok had on me the last time i tried it out. (which was the 3rd time or so) and i even made an account and signed in.
the politics bullshit and lame facebook-grade memes were the “best” it could muster. as in, the only things i understood.
maybe it works better in an english speaking and not-religious-asf country.
Nah you probably just didn’t give it much of a chance then. Especially if you think it caters to the religious crowd lol. They get torn apart in my little corner of tiktok. My entire feed is cooking, crochet, gardening, gaming, cats, random memes, and for some reason chickens. I don’t know why it decided I wanted to see people’s pet chickens but it was indeed very correct. The only political stuff I get for the most part is people I follow in politics
I’m honestly amazed that I haven’t succumbed and downloaded it.
I accidentally got sucked into YouTube shorts which is basically the same thing. Be careful out there.
Same, but like it’s not even good. Like I bet tiktok works because the algorithm is good and shows stuff you actually want to watch, but on YouTube Shorts I skip over most of them. Still keep scrolling tho
It doesn’t really seem like it honestly. My buddy’s girlfriend watches a lot of tiktok and it usually looks like multiple minutes of flicking past random bullshit to find one thing she likes, then rinse and repeat.
At least on Lemmy when I’m scrolling multiple pages of shit to find something I like, I’m not being immediately assaulted by your video I didn’t want to watch on every post I scroll past.
Lol dude come on. You’re really trying to pretend you scrolling past content on here is somehow different? And you’re speaking for someone else with no personal experience yourself? This whole post is giving boomers from Reddit tbh
Why are you supporting tiktok so strongly in this whole comment section, are you trying to convince people to waste their time on another app which only purpose is to use your time instead of doing something useful? TikTok is poison for ADHD as it is only another thing you can waste many hours of your life on, which is stopping you from actually doing the things that need to be done.
Hours enjoyed aren’t hours wasted. You don’t have to be productive to be happy. I’m just disappointed in my fellow millennials. The way you all sound like boomers on Facebook weirds me out. The way you pretend your flavor of social media somehow makes you superior is entertaining at least.
I mostly agree with them though, because a lot of the content on tiktok is pretty much useless stuff that wastes your time you have to scroll a lot to actually get somthing useful that is well researched. On lemmy most of the posts have proper content and articles(ignoring memes).
