{"id":6639,"date":"2022-02-25T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2022-02-25T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:50:54","slug":"how-i-feel-about-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6639","title":{"rendered":"How I Feel About TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Rebecca Dance\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did not love TikTok when it first came out as the new social media app, but eventually I did get sucked into the whirlpool of bite-sized dances, rants, and informational announcements. Since I put the app on my phone and created an account, I have increased my scrolling exponentially. At first, I was insistent that I wouldn\u2019t be into it, and I was absolutely certain that TikTok would fade soon and become obsolete. I wouldn\u2019t fall victim to some new fad that blinked out of existence before I could even get my bearings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spoiler: I very quickly fell into the trap of scrolling for hours because more interesting videos kept appearing and it was a wonderful distraction from the monotony of quarantines. I used it as a method of escape and a way to see the rest of the world from my room. Everyone was using it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I used to think it was just silly and useless &#8211; now I see it in a different light. I\u2019ve been using it to get some of my news (fact checked later, of course), to find new music, and to learn new things. The quick videos are a perfect format to just get a taste of something and learn more on my own later. It\u2019s also a nice little intersection between so many walks of life that you can find almost anything you\u2019re interested in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My final ruling on TikTok is that it isn\u2019t the mind-melting mess I at first assumed it to be, and I give it my approval. (If you\u2019re looking for an escape or to procrastinate during midterms, I recommend giving TikTok a mindless scroll.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rebecca Dance\u00a0 I did not love TikTok when it first came out as the new social media app, but eventually I did get sucked into the whirlpool of bite-sized dances, rants, and informational announcements. Since I put the app on my phone and created an account, I have increased my scrolling exponentially. At first,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}