TFD8: Is TikTok digital crack cocaine? Speaking with Dr. Julie Albright, author of Left To Their Own Devices

NEXT with John Koetsier · Jan 16, 2020 · 25m

Let’s start with TikTok. It gained over 500 million new users just last year. Why is it growing so quickly?

When you’re on TikTok -- and other, similar social platforms -- there’s an almost compulsive view and flick, view and flick as you scroll through bits of content. What’s happening in the brain while this is going on?

And … what does this do to people? Does it kill their attention span? Does it ruin them for anything requiring deep focus?

As a culture, we have a long history of crying wolf at the next new media platform, claiming it will ruin kids, ruin society, destroy education, kill…