Parent reviews for TikTok - Real Short Videos

Tiktok is waste of time .. addictive app .. very bad for kids .. utter nonsense is there .. inappropriate content is being used .

Worst effect on teenagers .
Beware of this app

Want society to go down the toilet because our kids want views and will do literally anything for them? This is your app. Stop creating self destructive things.

no good at all.

This app will ask you what you would like to see as soon as you get on it. Then it will start to show videos of all topics, just mostly the ones you picked, and whichever topic of videos you picked, is the kind you are going to see. Now they do allow some slightly bad videos, but if it gets really bad then it will get taken down. If you heart all of the bad videos, then you will get bad videos. I recommend that you allow your child to watch this, but monitor them, and take it away if they cannot follow your guidelines.

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.

Kids love this app and its easy to see why with the funny videos and 60 second dance moves. There is an unavoidable exposure to bad language on there so it's best avoided if you don't want your child hearing or miming swear words.

However, the biggest concern is that a lot of parents let kids create their own accounts. By default these accounts are public and so many kids post all kinds of information about themselves, where they live etc. There really needs to be more education about this in schools.
I made a video to try and help parents understand how the app works and how their kids may be using it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu2ulZUuNo4

I don't have any children, but I follow this site to find apps I would have missed, like Tik Tok.
Sounds pretty innocent, right? Kids can lip-sync to music and make their own videos. Well, the music that is out there is disgusting.
I don't listen to rap, so I had no idea that the lyrics were so disturbing. Really, it's all about sex, drugs, and violence. And this is the music that is accessible through Tik Tok. Do you want your middle and younger high school kids to hear this? Dancing to music about sex and drugs?
I didn't think so.

I think that letting your child connect with their friends is really important right now. I put restrictions on my daughter's account, using an extra platform and I looked at it myself. The content was fine and really put her in a good mood, which was great to see. And still, I think that we underestimate how much our kids can handle and that they don't really need content to be filtered because they know about the topics already. However TikTok was known for sharing information... but it should be fine now. I also linked my account to hers and she has to ask me to log in, so I am happy with her using it.