{"id":7310,"date":"2019-11-13T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:15:47","slug":"tik-tok-has-ruined-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/11\/13\/tik-tok-has-ruined-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"tik tok has ruined my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">okay that title was dramatic but tik tok is addicting. i don&#8217;t care what anyone says. but i&#8217;m ready to talk about my problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">it all started in first period last year at my old school (lumberton high school). i was just chilling in my desk, ya know, how people do when they&#8217;re tired and on the verge of quitting. then, my friend, let&#8217;s call her ASHANTI HOLDER, told me to download the app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">my first reaction was, and i quote, &#8220;absolutely not.&#8221; then about .6 seconds later, the app was installed and ready to go. so i opened it and made an account. and no, i&#8217;m not giving out my tik tok because that&#8217;s just weird. i then started watching the videos. they were all pretty stupid at first. but then i couldn&#8217;t stop watching. i found myself opening the app whenever i had a free moment. my problem was growing by the second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">it became evident to everyone around me that i had a problem when i knew every single sound on tik tok and almost all of the dances. it didn&#8217;t occur to me that i had a problem until i couldn&#8217;t stop watching tik toks instead of writing this very blog post. (so that was about 3 minutes ago now.) it is not uncommon for my roommate to come into the room and i&#8217;ll be laying there alone, in complete darkness, cackling at tik toks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">do i wish i had a social life? yeah. am i actually gonna do anything to achieve one? absolutely not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">i wish i could say that i am currently seeking treatment for my addiction, but that would be a lie. i am most definitely not willing to delete this app any time soon. thanks for reading this illiterate and strange blog post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">peace out girl scout \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">on a completely related note, as soon as i finished writing this, i opened tik tok and got sucked it for a solid 15 minutes without realizing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">peace out girl scout fr this time \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>okay that title was dramatic but tik tok is addicting. i don&#8217;t care what anyone says. but i&#8217;m ready to talk about my problem. it all started in first period last year at my old school (lumberton high school). i was just chilling in my desk, ya know, how people do when they&#8217;re tired and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/11\/13\/tik-tok-has-ruined-my-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;tik tok has ruined my life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7377,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions\/7377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}