{"id":5553,"date":"2025-04-27T17:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:06:32","slug":"tiktok-and-the-paradox-of-addiction-its-potential-as-a-tool-for-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5553\/tiktok-and-the-paradox-of-addiction-its-potential-as-a-tool-for-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok and the Paradox of Addiction: its Potential as a Tool for Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/self-care-happiness-mental-health-e1686194458582-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\nAbstract TikTok has faced criticism for promoting compulsive use through endless content loops, keeping users hooked and creating a potentially harmful digital environment. However, this paper argues that TikTok is not entirely bad. Despite its addictive design, TikTok can offer support for those who are healing from addiction or mental health struggles. This paper explores how intentional use helps users share recovery journeys and build uplifting communities. TikTok has quickly ascended to become <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5553\/tiktok-and-the-paradox-of-addiction-its-potential-as-a-tool-for-healing\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract TikTok has faced criticism for promoting compulsive use through endless content loops, keeping users hooked and creating a potentially harmful digital environment. However, this paper argues that TikTok is not entirely bad. Despite its addictive design, TikTok can offer support for those who are healing from addiction or mental health struggles. This paper explores how intentional use helps users share recovery journeys and build uplifting communities. TikTok has quickly ascended to become &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":6219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1303,1610,1325,1611,1609,1310,1289,1612],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csm","tag-communities","tag-healing","tag-mental-health","tag-recovery","tag-self-help","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}