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My Daughter: "Dad let me install TikTok!"

Me: "No. It is Chinese spyware."

My Daughter: "<so and so from school> has TikTok!"

Me: "<so and so> is a Chinese asset!"

My Daughter: "No she's not!"

Every day.

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In my experience it is a lot easier to tell your friends that you don't have any social media, rather than saying that you don't have a specific social media app/account/thing. Why? It's harder to understand why someone wouldn't install TikTok when they already have Snapchat/Instagram/everything else.

(I'm a high school student, abstaining from social media other than HN.)

Edit: Have you tried explaining to your daughter why TikTok is Chinese spyware?

HN is social media?

I think it is, at least as much as Reddit is as well. And before that Digg and Slashdot.

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