[CodLordFish]

I've thought so since the beginning, with almost everyone I know sinking at least 5 hours a day into the app. What has your experience been and is it addicting?

[bobbybob bobbybob]

No more so than any other social media platform. Attention is addictive and it can provide that for creators but also the rapid entertainment is nice to have so it can become addictive.

[dozosucks]

it’s not that bad tbh. just exit when you get bored, and find something else to do lmao.

[Youbettel69]

Considering my girlfriend won’t get off it, yes

[Tensei]

I do feel like it can be addicting. While it's nice scrolling through the content, it can distract me from my studies. Still some of the content there is nice, especially if the tiktoker has an onlyfans haha

[DennisArtart]

It's designed to be addictive. Every time you say to yourself "heh, what's one more 12 seconds video really?", it wins. It's the same as those games with microtransactions. Some people go a few times a day "heh, what's 0.5 bucks really?" without realizing that it adds up to 5-10$ a day, hundreds a month.

We live in an entertainment industry that gauges itself on "time people spend on MY platform". More time on theirs is more investors interested, and more of your habits sold to be fed on probabilistic machines to tailor adds to you.

If you are not sensitive to advertisement, it ain't a problem really. If you don't sacrifice a few times a day a good interaction for two or three videos, it ain't a problem. But if it starts impacting how available you are to the ones you love, it's starting to touch on the "addiction" official definition, in the problematic sense.

[fweyjdgswetse]

Probably depends on what kind of content you are looking for. Your time may be better spent on more "specialized" sites.