Tech Addiction

Beasley Digital

4/22/2025

Tech Addiction

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00:00I just read this. I know you read this this morning.

00:02TikTok is as addictive as a hardcore drug is.

00:06Oh, yeah. It's all about the dopamine drip.

00:08Do you... TikTok?

00:10No.

00:11Never.

00:12No, I don't. It's just so...

00:15And I know it sounds like... I'll catch reels.

00:17I'm kind of in the Instagram world, so I catch reels more than TikTok.

00:21Yeah, I love TikTok. I do.

00:24I get a ton of... This is, I guess, dating me too,

00:27but I get a ton of recipes off of there and, like, workouts.

00:29But as a user, but, like, for the people that are actually posting stuff

00:33as a content creator, it gets...

00:36Well, I tried to be a content creator, like...

00:39And I have a couple TikToks on there,

00:41but they don't go viral, and then I get mad.

00:44Same.

00:44I get so mad. I'm trying to go viral.

00:47I spent so much time trying to make one of my...

00:49It takes so long, and so I truly appreciate sometimes these people.

00:54I'm just literally... I'm just watching, yeah.

00:55So I refuse to... Again, I love TikTok.

01:00But if somebody sends me a TikTok via text message,

01:04I will not open it until I have 20 minutes to waste, at least.

01:09Because as soon as you open one, you just scroll...

01:11You're done.

01:12And scroll.

01:12You're wasted.

01:13And scroll.

01:13Exactly.

01:13So I'm not addicted because I don't have a problem yet,

01:16because I refuse to open until I know I have time,

01:19because then I'll go through.

01:20But my algorithm, like, I make sure to make sure I stay on the good algorithm.

01:26Because for a while, I was on, like, the sick baby's algorithm.

01:30And I'm crying about these people that I don't even know.

01:34But I'm like, oh, my God, if I was that mom, if I was that dad, this is devastating.

01:38Terrible.

01:39So I had to, honestly, when I would see something, swipe fast.

01:43So now I'm back in the good algorithm.

01:45It's funny things.

01:47It's workouts.

01:48And it's recipes.

01:49And I do not work out.

01:50And sometimes I make the recipes.

01:52I miss a world where we didn't use the word algorithm.

01:55Algorithm.

01:56I know.

01:56Spell algorithm.

01:58No.

01:58I just learned how to say it.

02:02It's just like, oh.

02:04I know.

02:05It's so manipulative.

02:06I know.

02:06So I'll send my husband, who does well on TikTok,

02:08I'll send my husband certain recipes or things.

02:13Or husband, wife things.

02:15And he refuses to open them because he doesn't want to get on my wife,

02:19the wife, the female TikTok algorithm.

02:22Because if he opens it and says, ha-ha, or whatever, they're like, got him.

02:27They're like piranhas.

02:28I don't know if they have enough on me for the algorithm.

02:31But they can probably track you off that.

02:33There's a guy that made an app for your browser that it will ding.

02:37Your computer will go ding whenever any data is sent to Google.

02:41Wow.

02:41And you click anything on a page, on not a Google page.

02:45Right.

02:46And bing, something's being sent to Google.

02:47Bing, something's constant.

02:49Did you watch the show on Netflix about this?

02:52About like-

02:53Oh, about the whole out social media algorithms.

02:56I know what you're talking about.

02:57And I know, but I do know.

02:58Like, so what Facebook would do this.

03:00Because the whole point is to keep you on the platform as long as possible.

03:05And that's what the movie was all about.

03:09Yeah.

03:09Like, if you take away your kid's phone and how their mind is like, oh my God, I need it.

03:13I need it.

03:13Like, it's their drug.

03:14And like, the second they're like, oh, they didn't stay on this page long enough.

03:17We got to send them something else.

03:18Send them something else.

03:19And they do that.

03:20Oh my God.

03:21I'm such a nerd, right?

03:22Do you do DuckDuckGo?

03:24No.

03:24Is that like a secure website or no?

03:27Well, here's my thing.

03:28All right.

03:29So they're a whole, they're a web browser.

03:30And I don't know if they've ever advertised here.

03:32Have they ever advertised here?

03:33Who?

03:33Sorry.

03:33DuckDuckGo?

03:34No, I don't think so.

03:35Okay, good.

03:35Why was I not listening to you?

03:36Like, there's somebody else in the room.

03:37I have no idea.

03:37Totally tuned me out.

03:38There's only two of us.

03:40Hi.

03:41Me?

03:41Hi.

03:43DuckDuckGo.

03:44It's like, hey, we don't collect all your data.

03:46Then how the heck do you have money to advertise and tell me that?

03:49That's true.

03:50That's my question.

03:51The whole thing is very, you know.

03:53So like, I'm trying to keep my kids off of social media and off the computer as much as

03:56humanly possible.

03:57I actually just had to take away their Google Home.

03:59They have a little screen.

04:00They would watch that.

04:01Why, did they talk to it too much?

04:01Well, they have like YouTube videos that will play on it, but they both crouch down and

04:05watch it all the time.

04:06And we're trying to potty train them and they just pee and poop in their pants.

04:10I'm like, dude, the bathroom's 10 feet that way.

04:13We're not doing this anymore.

04:14I took it out.

04:14I'm like, no, we can't do it.

04:16Yeah.

04:16See, Roman's pretty good.

04:17Roman's pretty good about, like, he has his iPad.

04:20And I think I got a little notification that said, your user time is down from 32 minutes

04:26to 28 minutes a day.

04:27Not too bad.

04:28That's good.

04:28Not too bad, Roman.

04:29Not too bad.

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