By: RILEY VUOLA
Staff Writer
If you’re a teenager in 2022, you probably have the app TikTok downloaded on your phone. This is an app where you can post videos from 15 seconds to 3 minutes long, and watch what everyone else is posting. You find these videos on the For You Page which you use by just scrolling through thousands of videos.
The bad thing about this app is that now people are used to only watching a video for a few minutes, and then instantly scrolling to the next one. I can say from personal experience that this has affected my attention span. It’s difficult to sit down and watch a movie or show since my brain has gotten used to this fast paced content. I’ve been using this app since 2020 and there has been a significant change in the media I am able to comfortably consume now.
I do believe that this is a good app to kill time and connect with friends, but I also believe that using it too often can be harmful to your attention span.