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I've never downloaded TikTok, so don't ever download it. It's a waste of time. It's trash. Chinese spyware. Just do something else with your life.
I've never downloaded TikTok, so don't ever download it. It's a waste of time. It's trash. Chinese spyware. Just do something else with your life.
I know a lot of people have their own opinions about different social media platforms, and TikTok is definitely a hot topic, but I actually really like TikTok. I think that although it is kind of scary, their algorithm, it's very smart, and it gives me the things that I want to watch, and that's why I like it because I feel like all the videos that I see are all tailored towards me and things that I like. Currently my algorithm is a lot of like cooking recipes, and it's super simple because it's just like 60-second really quick videos of how I can make something new, so I like that. It doesn't always have to be bad things, but the algorithm can really be appealing to you.
Trends and things are sometimes fun. It's pretty dangerous. You can get on live. There's plenty of there's nothing stopping people from talking to your child. It's a big, big, big time waster. So people are on there a lot, a lot of the time. So you got to be very careful and mindful about how long you're on TikTok, who's using it. And be mindful that there really aren't that many safety precautions that are in place for kids who use TikTok.
I have such mixed feelings about TikTok. On the positive side, I think it's a really cool way for people to be creative and share advice and show their talents. I love watching cooking videos and watch people build things, invent things, sing, dance, share their talents. I think in that sense, it's really awesome. I've seen people share a lot of good, positive, and uplifting content, but there's also a lot of trash on TikTok. A lot of inappropriate content. And also, anyone can comment something mean about someone else and can lead to a lot of problems and also misinformation can be spread. AI can create fake news. So definitely mixed reviews.
TikTok is addictive and it causes children to have short attention spans, including myself. It's so addictive and most of the time it has questionable content. There are good things, hacks that you can learn, there are benefits to TikTok. However, I think that the disadvantages highly outweigh them and often cripple people socially because any friends that I know that have TikTok are in their phones pretty much the entire time that we're hanging out and it just is not ideal.
