Yesterday I downloaded TikTok, just to register my preferred username and to see if it was any more useable than the last time I tried it years ago. While I thought I did get my preferred username, it silently added an 8 to the end of it. It turns out there is someone using my preferred username already so I changed it to my second choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other thing I did was find a few accounts of people and businesses I know of on there and follow them. I figured that this would result in my feed being them instead of all those \u201csuggestions\u201d the app crams at me. But everywhere I looked, that\u2019s all I got. It\u2019s horrible. Autoplayed videos of things I don\u2019t want to get sucked into, or card after card of suggested accounts, and nothing<\/em> from the accounts I followed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After a few minutes poking around, I deleted the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I downloaded TikTok, just to register my preferred username and to see if it was any more useable than the last time I tried it years ago. While I thought I did get my preferred username, it silently added an 8 to the end of it. It turns out there is someone using my … <\/p>\n