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Knowing the harms of social media, an addict struggles to break the habit.
Quitting Time
Editor's note: The following story was originally published on December 18 as part of City Weekly 's 2025 Year in Review issue . I have a confession—I’m an addict. Not to alcohol or drugs, I quit those years ago. This addiction is harder to break than whiskey or wine.
It’s TikTok. TikTok lures me in every day. I tell myself I can quit. I do not quit. The longer I stay on the app, the more I see how the system works. My feed repeats itself every night: politics; movies; occasional sports; the same voices; the same loops; the same patterns.
Repetition is not accidental.
This is a 600 character excerpt. Read the full story at City Weekly, where it was published on December 29, 2025.
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