Tiktok Gamifies Mindfulness With 'well-being Missions'

TikTok’s latest reply to its addictiveness is gamified mindfulness tools. The app’s caller Well-being Missions fto you gain badges for completing challenges related to balanced integer habits. To beryllium clear, mindfulness and dopamine-seeking mini-games are a contradictory pair. But hey, astatine slightest it’s healthier than doomscrolling.

The first batch of TikTok’s "short, engaging missions" focuses connected nan platform’s existing integer well-being tools. (The institution plans to trial caller features and grow nan missions complete time.) They see quizzes and flashcards, aspects nan institution says were well-received successful early testing.

TikTok says Well-being Missions attraction connected affirmative reinforcement. The thought is to shape caller habits done encouragement, acquisition and a consciousness of progress. The gamified challenges are based connected research, proposal from TikTok’s Youth Council and master consultations.

It’s easy to tie a consecutive statement betwixt TikTok’s mindfulness features and accusations that it knowingly harmed users’ intelligence health. ByteDance’s ain investigation reportedly recovered that compulsive usage of nan level correlates pinch "a slew of antagonistic intelligence wellness effects." It’s besides associated pinch disruption to sleep, responsibilities, and connecting pinch loved ones.

Some mightiness opportunity nan reply to that would beryllium to, oh, make nan level little addictive. But travel on, now: can’t interfere pinch profits! So, badge-earning mindfulness missions, it is. Go get 'em, champ.