TikTok slammed for being too addictive in app's first 'I quit' essay

It was the second most downloaded app of 2019 but in 2020 has acquired its first 'why I deleted my TikTok' essay

Perhaps you've just barely wrapped your head around the existence and popularity of TikTok - something about dances? A young woman called Charli D'Amelio? Does the word "renegade" have something to do with it? Sigh.

While you're sorting that out, at least one young user is already over 2019's second-most downloaded app. Last Sunday, Cornell University sophomore Niko Nguyen published an essay in the Cornell Daily Sun student paper detailing his personal decision to quit TikTok. According to the Verge's technology journalist Casey Newton, Nguyen's post is "the first known 'why I deleted my TikTok' essay. An important rite of passage for any social app."