TikTok has launched a new app and started publishing a list of the best-selling books in the UK. Perhaps for the first time, it’s an event that can directly impact people’s development. In a social media landscape that publishes a lot of nonsense and confines young people to the internet, TikTok is, for the first time, acknowledging and showing its users that there’s a life outside of social media.
Since social media became influential worldwide, book sales, theater and cinema ticket sales, and newspaper numbers have all decreased. Books, newspapers, theater, and cinema have become places frequented by people over middle age.
Especially for young people, their ways of reading, discovering new places and people, and self-improvement have been reduced to social media, creating living dead who are nothing more than zombies.
If TikTok published not only a book list but also lists of the most-watched films, most-attended theater performances, and best-selling newspapers, it would help even more people.
It might be a little late, yes, but there’s still something that can be done. By the way, it would be helpful if TikTok also released an exercise on how to read a book. Young people only know as much about books as they’ve learned in school.How to use the pages, how to turn the pages, how to use your fingers when turning the pages of a book, how to fold the corners of the pages, and so on…