So, I caved in to the constant “shares” of TikTok videos and the family chatter (and when I say family I mean my daughter) and downloaded the TikTok app. Just what I need, yet another way to waste my time. I already spend an inordinate amount of my day checking my email, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. Not to mention playing Words With Friends, checking the stock market, my Google feed, and of course this blog. So, sure I need another rabbit hole to go down and this rabbit hole might as well be powered by Elon Musk’s Boring Company, that’s how deep it goes. This is a time machine of the dark side, slipping us through a wormhole into an immediate future we can’t remember getting to. Hours pass in what seems moments. Maybe that’s why it’s called TikTok. The passing of time.
I was also hesitant to download TikTok because of it’s ties to China. It was viewed as a back door into our computer systems but when Oracle, Microsoft and Walmart were discussing buying and or investing in it, that sort of made it okay. What I’ve come to realize is that they, hell everybody, already knows everything anyway so what if They know I’m partial to screaming goat videos, Michael Jackson dance impressions, and lip syncing political banter, that’s hardly going to threaten my well being now is it? Besides, it’s fun.