Parent reviews for TikTok - Real Short Videos

Hello, if you are a parent and you are reading this review, please take in a lot of consideration if you allow or see Tik Tok on your child's mobile device. Tik Tok is a social media platform where children, teens, and even adults can interact with each other through messaging and sharing videos, which makes the app have a lot of safety concerns. Tik Tok boasts that the user has to be 13 or older to make videos, but I have seen plenty of children under 13 which use it and Tik Tok does not revoke their accounts. There has been a spike of creeps and pedophiles on the app which I have heard accounts of them 'grooming' children w/o their parents knowledge. Also, there is too much sexually suggestive content for a young teen to see on this app. The adult content I mentioned in the title is that there has been news of a 17 y/o minor who flashed on their live video also causing an uproar because they also said a racial slur multiple times because of " peer pressure". Overall, Tik Tok's community is toxic and is not safe for children, as many people follow users just to make fun of them and their videos (while sharing them on Instagram and calling them flops) which is essentially cyber bullying.

Personally I think this is a great fun easy to use app for kids and teens. My 12 year old daughter has it and loves. Yes there are many songs with inappropriate lyrics but if your child is mature and knows what to watch out for they should be fine. Also you can make your account private. My daughter has a private account so only her friends can see her videos. Overall I would say just check your child's profile every now and then to check on the songs they are lip syncing to and listening to.

My 12 year old has been using about a week and showed me some cool sports related videos he made...something prompted me tonight to look a, little closer. Found that others could view and request to follow (didn't even know it was a social app). TEN "people" messaged him asking for him to "follow"... Obvious attempts to lure him to who knows what. These were professionals, without a doubt. Beware!

While this is really fun for the kids and you can have a "private" account, there is a Search Icon on the home page which opens them up to any and all adult videos. In addition, when they open the App, adult videos come up unprompted. This is not an App that parents can fully supervise. Very disappointing.

I don't want to see it as an adult. I had it for 3 days, I got it to download something off the internet oh, that was actually wholesome. The only thing they sent me was stuff I would never watch and really disgusted me I'm trying to figure out how to remove it and make it where it can never get near me again. Your kids don't need to see this stuff it's not funny, and it's worse than TV which is pretty hard to even imagine. It definitely looks more R-rated than anything else if it was a movie. All I can say is yuck have a great day.

Musical.y is a very confusing app. I would know because when my 11 year old boy wanted to dowload it, I thought it would be easy to control and use. But boy I was wrong. So, today, I am going to be talking about the basics of musical.y.
First of all, you can get the app on your Classic Apple Devices, (iPhone, IPad,IPod) and whatever other brand that has access to the Internet and the Google Play Store. But you can't dowload it like you normally do. There's a special website that has a link to the real IPhone version because if you search it up on the App Store, several versions will come up that look alike. You can get that website from people you know that have musical.ly. (My son found this website from one of his friends.) Once you get to the website, just link on the correct link (Apple Store OR Google Play Store) and it'll be dowloading afterward. (This app takes up almost a gigabyte) Once you fully dowloaded the app, click on it and there it will give a small slideshow of photos, These photos don't give you much details about musical.ly but they do let you get a picture on who he might be following or what his musical.ly might look and sound like. Once you get to the end of this, click the sign up button if it's your first time or sign in button if already have an account created. (For this tutorial, let's just pretend we pressed the sign up button) Once you press that button, it will take you to a page that wants you create a Muser Name and a password. A "Muser Name" is like a Username and how everyone else sees your name. You have to be really creative with this.

A lot of these negative reviews are false. As usual on the Common Sense Media, there is always parents hating on social media apps. If you make your account private, view your child's account, and make messages from friends only or no one, it is safe and suitable for kids. This app could also make kids very creative.

I love tiktok but it has a massive community of kids and frankly it’s not safe for them to use. Most of them are following well known adult tiktokkers who’s content is not kid friendly (swearing, sexual references etc.), sometimes their content promotes sexism and racism in a “jokey” but offensive manner and your kids absorb that material because they’re impressionable. These tiktokkers also make money off feeding that type of content to your children. I see a lot of kids harassing adult tik tokkers for calling out other adult tiktokkers who promote these toxic beliefs because obviously these kids believe their favourite tiktokker undoubtedly. The amount of times I see children call adult women dishwashers and black people the n word is too much (there are adult tiktokkers who do this). They’re too young to understand what they’re saying and the reality is those type of comments and videos stay on the Internet forever. Even if you’ve deleted their accounts, the app still possesses that information. A lot of teenagers have already ruined their future for posting something racist or sexist - where it resulted in them not graduating or going to college etc. & so the fact that actual children are absorbing this material and spewing it out on TikTok is concerning for their future & self growth. I enjoy the app very much and for the most part it can be a pleasant and an insightful app but only if you’re mature enough to analyze and process the information you’re watching. I feel like this about most social media. I wish I wasn’t on social media until I was 15 because it can have real negative affects on the brain and self confidence. I know kids love the app, but they’re far too young and until the app puts more effort into ensuring that offensive and hateful content is removed without a doubt and that kids will only see appropriate content, I do not recommend this app for children. I’d also like to add that children are clever, they find ways to lie about their age to experience the “age appropriate” content.

This app is amazing I think that 9 year olds should be able to use it. My 9 year old is using very well though there some swear words in songs it’s ok because nowadays 4th graders casually swear and it’s fine it just comes up in the song. Some tiktok can be a little inappropriate but there is no nudity or anything sexual just maybe some subtle jokes which they may never even see because of the wide variety.Most older creators know that a lot of their viewers are young so they are very careful. I love it when my daughter makes tiktoks, she asks me to be in them especially in quarantine when no one else is there. We have a lot of fun with that she used to very distant from me but with tiktok she has opened up more to me and she tells me about the famous tiktok era and the dramas going on with them. Overall it’s a very cool platform with so many awesome videos. People use it to show off all there talents in very fun way like singing, dancing, comedy, baking, art and a lot of academics I know a lot of teachers make tiktoks to teach there students in a very engaging way. You should definitely get it! Just make sure your child is mature enough not to do everything they see online