I don’t remember looking for anything in particular when I opened TikTok one February evening.
What I do remember was one video that dared me to examine my digital diet. “Check your TikTok screen time,” user @katherout challenged me. “Then check how many hours last week you actually hung out with your friends. It should not be similar ... It’s very possible that you spend more time with people you don’t know on TikTok and YouTube, than people you do know in real life.”