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What TikTok does to your mental health: ‘It’s embarrassing we know so little’

By Kari Paul

30 Oct 2022 · 7 min read

“We owe it to ourselves and to the users of these platforms to understand how we are changed by the screens we use and how we use them”.

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In the few years since its launch, TikTok has already altered the face of the social media landscape, attracting more than 1 billion users and leading competitors to replicate some of its most unique features.

The impact of that explosive growth and the ‘TikTok-ification’ of the internet at large on social media users remains little understood, experts warn, exacerbating concerns about the impact of social media on our habits and mental health.

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