Social Media companies make most of their money getting people to use their app as much as possible. The idea of social media being used less in the future is impossible in my opinion because social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and snapchat are finding ways to keep people on their apps as long as they can without thinking about the negative effects it has on the users as long as their money increases. Social media companies targets are kids and teenagers who are easily entertained and become addicted. The older generation are not used to using their phone as much as we are because they didn’t grow up on it. Kids can spend all day on tablets and phones as long as someone doesn’t take it away from them as seen in the youtube video “Why you’re addicted to your smartphone”. People are hired to improve apps to make them more addictive and the changes happen before our eyes that we don’t realize that we are spending more time on our phones. One example I can think of is Instagram making a section on their app for TiK ToK videos. Tik Tok is the new app this generation is obsessed with and would spend hours on it just watching what kinds of videos people came up with and maybe recreating it and posting it. Trump was trying to ban this app because first he said he didn’t want China to collect data off our phones and have the China government have access to that data but then people are thinking that Trump is so surprised by how information is quickly circulating that he can no longer control the information being presented and it’s true. People are about to put information Online whether true or false and it can spread like wildfire but who is he to want to control what people say or information we have access to. He is always on Twitter saying anything he wants to say as President of the United States.
This leads me to the article “Cicero’s Twitter: Tom Standage on the forgotten history of social media” about how social media is not new but only has a new approach. The older generation were used to radio stations playing popular music and listening to the information the radio wanted to talk about and Television channels that had shows and commercials about what they wanted people to know because it was a one way communication. Now social media has a two way communication that lets the views and audience voices be heard whether they like it or not. Anyone can type on their phones how they feel about a commercial or a tv episode or a comment someone made on live radio or TV and post it on any social media app and get support on the post or backlash because it is now public.
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I picked this article to go with the point I made about Trump trying to ban TiK Tok. This is the first time I am seeing a President try to ban an App that millions of people use.
Do you think Trump will be successful in Banning Tik Tok?
SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY 
Hello, you have shared quite information about the Tik Tok and the step of Trump for banning Tik Tok. Whenever a person clicks on the internet he/she is going to share the information either they know about it or not. Many of the links we access use the cookies so ultimately we are sharing our information on the internet and I wonder how Trump is going to stop all of this? Sharing information on social media or on the internet will remain the same either he bans the Tik Tok or even all the apps, because people will eventually find a way out to reach to their favorite apps.
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