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TikTok’s latest answer to its addictiveness is gamified mindfulness tools. The app’s new Well-being Missions let you earn badges for completing challenges related to balanced digital habits. To be clear, mindfulness and dopamine-seeking mini-games are a contradictory pair. But hey, at least it’s healthier than doomscrolling.
The first batch of TikTok’s "short, engaging missions" focuses on the platform’s existing digital well-being tools. (The company plans to test new features and expand the missions over.
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