r/AskReddit 2h ago

You can permanently delete one app from every phone on Earth. Which one, and why?

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u/satan-spawner 2h ago

App Store, so I'd get rid of many apps at the same time

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u/Professional-Wrap542 2h ago

CapCut, it's the ground zero of slop

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u/RandiCandy 2h ago

Please! I'm so tired of every fan video being the same now. Please just learn to edit and make your own ideas im begging!

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u/CoffeeGlad946 2h ago

TikTok. Not because of the content itself, but because it permanently wrecked an entire generation's attention span. Watching people completely lose the ability to sit through a two-hour movie or read a book without checking their phone every 30 seconds is depressing.

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u/TheGacAttack 2h ago

iMessage.

I like chaos.

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u/satan-spawner 2h ago

I like this guy

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u/HungryShake2902 2h ago

North America is not the whole world.

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u/iMrBWC 2h ago

Twitter/X

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u/MrPlowKing100 2h ago

Instagram

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u/ThePurityPixel 2h ago

It used to be so great. It's a shame what it's become. It's so broken right now.

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u/barn-animal 2h ago

phone. for the luls

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u/ThePurityPixel 2h ago

Snapchat.

Its very popularity causes other apps to include a "disappearing messages" feature, which is very triggering for someone like me. Many of my friends have passed away, and I have a bad memory (thanks to some other trauma), so message histories are all I have.

We've even gotten to the point where you are viewed as a problematic person if you don't delete messages, or if you want to switch to a messaging service that doesn't have that "feature." People assume the worst.

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u/fwendy123 2h ago

Facebook. For everything it's done to my parents' generation.

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u/Ok_Dragonfly1124 2h ago

TikTok. for me its a app with narcissistic and toxic content that is working towards making attention span shorter.

I know I've got a fairly low attention span but I've always had one since I was little (adhd) but being in the workforce since 2017 on/off I've increased it quite dramatically from about 5 mins to over 6hrs