{"id":20321,"date":"2025-01-17T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20321"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:41:34","slug":"a-tiktok-habit-is-hard-to-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20321","title":{"rendered":"A TikTok Habit Is Hard to Break"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Savannah Kalata, a high school senior, wakes up in the morning, the first thing she does is turn off her alarm. The second thing she does is open TikTok.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just like this quick fix,\u201d said Ms. Kalata, 18, who lives in Minnesota. \u201cI can\u2019t take my eyes off it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Kalata spends about two and a half hours a day on TikTok, she said. She watches videos while she\u2019s eating, while she\u2019s walking on the treadmill, and while she\u2019s in bed before she goes to sleep. \u201cI feel like my phone can kind of control me at times,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t even necessarily want to go on TikTok. It\u2019s a habit, and it\u2019s something that\u2019s hard to break.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Kalata may have to quit cold turkey.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court on Friday backed a federal law<\/a> that would effectively ban the popular app from operating in the United States. The decision means that the app could be banned as soon as Sunday. How that might play out for TikTok\u2019s roughly 170 million U.S. users isn\u2019t yet clear. But it may soon be difficult, if not impossible, for users to scroll to their heart\u2019s content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI WONT SURVIVE I FEAR,\u201d one user wrote in a video caption<\/a>. \u201cHow will I ever laugh again?\u201d wrote another<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The videos about TikTok \u201cwithdrawal\u201d aren\u2019t all serious. But some users, like Ms. Kalata, say they do genuinely feel addicted \u2014 and some experts who study social media use say that may be true, to an extent.<\/p>\n

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When Savannah Kalata, a high school senior, wakes up in the morning, the first thing she does is turn off her alarm. The second thing she does is open TikTok.\u201cIt\u2019s just like this quick fix,\u201d said Ms. Kalata, 18, who lives in Minnesota. \u201cI can\u2019t take my eyes off it.\u201dMs. Kalata spends about two and a half hours a day on TikTok, she said. She watches videos while she\u2019s eating, while she\u2019s walking on the treadmill, and while she\u2019s in bed before she goes to sleep. \u201cI feel like my phone can kind of control me at times,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t even necessarily want to go on TikTok. It\u2019s a habit, and it\u2019s something that\u2019s hard to break.\u201dMs. Kalata may have to quit cold turkey.The Supreme Court on Friday backed a federal law that would effectively ban the popular app from operating in the United States. The decision means that the app could be banned as soon as Sunday. How that might play out for TikTok\u2019s roughly 170 million U.S. users isn\u2019t yet clear. But it may soon be difficult, if not impossible, for users to scroll to their heart\u2019s content.\u201cI WONT SURVIVE I FEAR,\u201d one user wrote in a video caption. \u201cHow will I ever laugh again?\u201d wrote another.The videos about TikTok \u201cwithdrawal\u201d aren\u2019t all serious. But some users, like Ms. Kalata, say they do genuinely feel addicted \u2014 and some experts who study social media use say that may be true, to an extent.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20323,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20324,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321\/revisions\/20324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}