As the years go by and as I get older, I am now in my early thirties, I see my days of social media dwindling down, all I use these days is ‘X’ (formally known as Twitter) because I love to stay on top of current events and see the latest articles seeing from reputable journalists who still use it, even though that app has gone down the drain.

Though the biggest app right now ‘TikTok’ is used globally with over 1.56 billion active users and about 10% of users being American, according to demandsage. It has everything for all its users from quick life hacks to movie/television show/sports clips, and even real-life situations in quick paced clips.

Though the controversial part and a take that’s not new or hot at all, is the app seems to have a negative impact on not only the attention span, but the mind. Clear example of that problem is TikTok videos with multiple things playing at once to hold on the audience attention, you could stumble upon a clip of Joe Rogan’s Podcast, while in the same video a gameplay from a mobile game, to keep engagement active throughout the video.

If that’s not dystopian enough for you, the algorithm TikTok uses to increase usage on its audience can honestly do damage to someone’s psyche.

There are reasons for concern when criticizing the app, though it would be cynical of me to not also understand the reason why people use it, monetize from it, and use it to keep up with current events.

The pedestal that social media platform X once held before the change, was that it was the social media platform for people to share raw sources or claim whether stories were true or false, though with recent current events TikTok has proved that it has made significant changes on how we cover things in modern media and news.

Even though agreeing with a ban on TikTok, and as good as it sounds to relieve people of some social media, we should never have our government decide what to ban, it should always be in the hands of the user, and the user’s parent or guardian.

As of now Biden has approved the bill to ban TikTok, and many have been celebrating the political move, but this is just another prime example of Americans unconsciously consenting even further on what can be banned with no repercussions for both media and how we indulge and cover news.