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Tikatok
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Not age appropriate for kids under 4, age appropriate for kids over 6; suggested age 9. -
Is it any good?
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Common Sense says
Kids write and share stories safely on super-creative site.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 9 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Tikatok
Parents need to know that this site includes strong safety measures. Parents have to register -- providing email, home address, and phone number "as a means of verifying parental identity and consent" -- and approve their kids' accounts, and are notified when kids add a friend, submit a comment, or do any other public activity. Younger kids who find the publishing tools challenging may want to work with a parent to create a book.
Read our full review by Susan Yudt
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the creative process and review our Creating with Digital Media guidelines. Where do you get your ideas for stories? What do you do if you're "stuck" in your story? If kids decide to share their books with the community or comment on other users' creations, parents can talk about giving and taking constructive feedback.
Our Members Say
Most Recent Reviews
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Inappropriate language
- My highlights are:
- User content is age appropriate
the lyric show
- I rate this title off for age 17 and give itMy concerns are:
- Safety is an issue
- User content isn't age appropriate
PARENTS AND TEACHERS BEWARE!!!!
Our daughter, age 12, registered without our knowledge. She very easily put in bogus age information and put her email rather than ours, also very easy to do. After writing several short books, several "friends" commented on them. One in particular began chatting (which is allowed in their "clubs") and claimed to be a 10 year old girl but proceeded to ask a series of leading questions including requesting a cell phone number, her age, if she had a nick name, where she lived, etc. Fortunately my wife monitors her email and saw that they had began exchanging emails. This person turned out not to be a girl at all. We contacted the authorities after printing pages of chat exchanges. BEWARE PARENTS AND TEACHERS!!! This is NOT a safe place for children. In my opinion, any site that allows chats is a haven for preying upon the vulnerabilities of children. Also, beware that the books that are written don't contain any personal information. I was amazed that such an innocent site such as Build A Bear would be a gateway to this type of behavior. Parents, the authorities advised us to not allow children to have an email address and to lock their computers to access only those web sites that you explicitly allow.
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
gone
the website expired in june 2008 :(
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Ratings at a Glance
| 33% | of parents feel users contributed great content |
| 33% | of parents feel user generated content is iffy |
| 33% | of parents feel the site is not safe |
| 33% | of parents say it has language their kids can't use |
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