These days kids from the age of 11 and 12 spend most of their time on Tiktok. Kids this age spend their free time scrolling through an app called Tiktok. Most of us are probably familiar with the app. But if you are not let me explain. Tiktok is a app made for addicting young users. It is addictive and once you start scrolling through a thing called four you page you can’t stop. And that’s the thing Tiktok and a lot of social media apps do! They show you things that they think you would like to keep you longer on the app. They do this to get profit from it aka money.
Also the app was originally made for users from the age of 16. But because Tiktok wanted more and more downloads they made it to 13. But there are even younger children joining the app, because they’re parents do not control this and personally don’t care.
Why tiktok is bad for 11 year olds
That is the main reason the for you page is called for you is that it is made to interest you so you spend hours on it. Because of this a lot of kids/teenagers fail at school. Of course Tiktok isn’t the only reason most teenagers are failing school but its one of the biggest reasons. They are tired because they stayed up till 3 A.m. Can’t concentrate and are addicted. They come home and go on their phone to go on Tiktok. And nearly always they forget to do their homework because they were so intrigued in the app.
The app makes you concentrate on not important stuff. Like for an example when is charlie damelio gonna post. When is part 2 from my favorite Pov series. Pov is: POV stands for ‘Point Of View‘ and refers to a trend in which the video shows the viewer’s point of view of a certain situation. It is basically acting. When will a new dance come out so I learn it.
Some things make them not concentrate on stuff that are important like school and homework. Because Tiktok isnt gonna help make your future better. But studying and doing good at school will. Most of kids dream jobs these days are influencer’s. And if this keep going on soon we wont have enough people working at the doctors, shops, police etc. The thing is children at the age of 11 or older or even younger should be pursuing they’re talents, but instead they are waving their hands for Tiktok dances.
How does this affect children?
This age is the age where the child’s brain is developing and should be focused on positive things like their future mental health and welling not how much likes their Tiktok gets. It is very harmful for the child’s brain to be on social media or on screens in general for more than 4 hours. But these days kids mostly teens from the age of 12 spend 11 hours minimum. I know this app can be addictive because of my own experience but the trick is. Tiktok can be good if you use it right. For an example if you only watch Tiktoks for 2 hours max daily your wellbeing would definitely improve.
By staying on your phone 24/7 can cause many mental health issues. For an example there has been a lot of depression and anxiety cases in children these days. It has become higher of kids to get social anxiety from 2020 to 2021. One of the reasons for this is because they text instead of hanging out in real life they forget or are not used to socializing.
Of course corona virus has a lot to do with this. Because when the kids were in lock down they had nothing else to do besides sit on their phone. They were limited to do things with friends and other activities outside. Of course they could have done some productive things at home but we all know that no kid would just do productive tings. Instead of watching YouTube. It started with Youtube then Tiktok and now twitch but we will talk about twitch in a different article.
What do parents say about Tiktok?
‘I am now at the stage where I am correcting my own mistakes. And I admit – I did a huge mistake . I allowed my daughter to use the phone whenever she wanted, wherever she wanted and as much as she wanted. After splitting up with my wife, neither of us set any boundaries in this matter, we would btoh give her anything she wanted. I know it was bad on many levels. I also know that prevention would be better than having to straighten things out, which we have to do now. And I knew it before, but it was easier this way’
– says Mark about the problematic use of TikTok by his teenage daughter.
