TikTok isn’t just feeding social media addiction. It’s now enabling shopping addiction, too.
Between January and October, the 170 million Americans who are on TikTok spent more than $10 billion on TikTok Shop — double the amount spent last year over the same time span.
Sam Reddy was irritated by TikTok Shop when it first started popping up in her feed a year and a half ago, but very quickly got hooked.
“At first, it was annoying, but then, with all the ads and people talking about the products, it became FOMO,” the 40-year-old from Baltimore told The Post. “You see people talking about [an item], and so you want to get it… Inevitably, you go from watching TikTok to looking at a product.”
Reddy makes corsets for a living, so it all started with buying corset boning on TikTok Shop. B

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