Comment by According_Gazelle472 on 19/01/2025 at 22:29 UTC

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View submission: Anyone else not ever use TikTok whatsoever?

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The only social media I have is reddit and that is it .

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Comment by Nightmare_Ives at 20/01/2025 at 02:15 UTC

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Yup same. After 2020, I just got into so many stupid fights with people on FB. I deleted it and do not miss it.

Comment by Individual_Town8124 at 20/01/2025 at 03:34 UTC*

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Same!

Earlier this year a teen in Nebraska was charged with felonies after derailing a cargo train in response to a Tik Tok challenge 'Can a penny derail a train'? The answer is no, a penny can't do that, but this kid was determined to see a train derail in his hometown so he positioned a camera at a switching junction and sabotaged the switching gear, causing a derailment. Then he posted the resulting video online and got arrested/prosecuted

Fortunately no one died and the derailed cars did not contain hazmat. But s**t like this that poses hazards to life and property needs to be off social media. I don't know why this is allowed.

(I work in international logistics and had freight delayed on that train.)

Comment by 12thshadow at 20/01/2025 at 06:56 UTC

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Yeah me too, because Reddit is 'reading' and I mostly follow things I am interested in. Not endless streams of videos of people looking at the camera and pointing in the air where text appears explaining how neurodivergent they are. I get is, you are special, so is everybody else. Now let me read something about ancient civilizations or woodworking.

Comment by DoubleExposure at 20/01/2025 at 02:41 UTC

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Same, no FB, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or any other SMP dead or otherwise ever, other than Reddit of course.

Comment by Gourmeebar at 20/01/2025 at 08:11 UTC

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Me too. I like the idea of pulling information and not having it pushed to me

Comment by pvrx2 at 20/01/2025 at 05:40 UTC

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Same.

Comment by jkaan at 20/01/2025 at 07:55 UTC

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So you just watch the tik tok reposts with the rest of us

Comment by plumberdan2 at 20/01/2025 at 08:59 UTC

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Yah same except YouTube also.

But tbh there are a suspicious number of accounts that are like 5 days old and very boot-licker-ish on both sites. The Internet is kinda getting to be more trouble than it's worth.

Comment by Zestyclose_Scar_9311 at 20/01/2025 at 10:10 UTC

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Haha same; i didn’t even realize it was social media until someone told me. I have no friends and no followers, mostly like to read about sitcoms and stuff

Comment by rackfloor at 20/01/2025 at 14:45 UTC

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Same

Comment by WhereIsMyHat at 20/01/2025 at 15:11 UTC

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I don't even have my reddit account(s) connected to an email. Big point in reddits favor there

Comment by Legendary_Bibo at 20/01/2025 at 15:16 UTC

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I'm down to mostly using Reddit when I'm drinking my morning coffee and when I'm decompressing after work for 30-60 minutes. Also, when I'm taking a shit because what else you gonna do?

The only times I find myself using it all day is when I'm sick and going in and out of sleeping all day, or when I had a bad night of sleep and have no energy for anything else.

Comment by hamburgersocks at 20/01/2025 at 19:41 UTC

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I don't even count reddit as social media. It's commenting on comments. I don't have any friends here, there's nothing social about it.