First, A Digital Background I re-joined TikTok recently. Re-joined because I had been there, and I left. But before I jumped into my own personal observations about this AI-generated social media system, I must assert that I am Gen X and traveled from typewriters to desktop computing, from floppies to clouds, and from cassette tapes to streaming--only my generation survived that, because the rest didn’t have to make such giant leaps in such a short time. What do I mean? I am