I’m addicted to TikTok. I’m begging the government to ban it

With its endless scroll of content, TikTok quickly became a dependence: It helped me relax, helped me sleep, helped me pass by three hours without a semblance of connection. 

I downloaded TikTok back in 2020, by which point it had moved from cringe teen fad to pandemic must-have. Since then, I’ve seen my attention span fracture and metastasize. The endless scroll subsumed me, along with some 48 million others in my Gen Z cohort.