Marley says she uses TikTok for work; her flatmate says 12 hours a day is too much. You decide if this social media habit is antisocial
I’ve known Marley for about seven years and she’s always been quite reliant on her phone as she works in social media, but she’s now seriously addicted to it, even after she’s clocked off.
I hid her phone once to see how long it would take before she flipped and she couldn’t hack it for more than two minutes When she’s working from home at the same time as me, I can hear her videos from the next room. I get disturbed by these weird songs on repeat, and she constantly quotes trending videos. When there was a viral video about a boy eating corn a while back, she’d just randomly burst into song, singing “It’s corn! A big lump with knobs” around the flat about 50 times a day.
Marley needs to ease off on the phone usage for her own good, but she could also stop blasting videos around the house when I’m trying to watch TV or have a chat. I can deal with a bit of singing but I’m not on TikTok myself so I can’t really relate.My phone is permanently glued to my hand, I agree with James there. But I don’t think it’s got much to do with him. If I want to make myself blind by spending nine hours a day on TikTok, so what? He should just let me.
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