TikTok Brain: Can We Save Children’s Attention Spans?

By Nathan Crispo

The Facebook, now just Facebook, launched in February of 2004.[1]  It took just one day for the site to get over one thousand users.[2]  As of 2024, Facebook has more than three billion monthly users and over two billion daily users.[3]  While Facebook is one of the earliest social media platforms that is still widely used today,[4] it is far from alone in having billions of users.  As of January 2024, at least six different social media platforms have more than one billion users.[5]  Social media has become ubiquitous; more than five billion people worldwide are social media users.[6]