Tiktok is a mobile video sharing application and social network. It was developed by the Chinese company ByteDance. In today’s youth world, social networks are used a lot. They use them to communicate with each other, to discover new people, to pass the time or to take their chance to become famous.
Tiktok has been downloaded more than a billion times since its inception and is reported to have more monthly users than Twitter or Snapchat. This app is free and packed with ads. And this app learns. This means that everything we like, such as the profiles of people we often look at, will be recorded by this platform. People tend to keep going back to what they like, and even more so, young people find everything they think they need to have fun.
Young people often want to compare themselves to other tickers who are known for this platform around the world. They want to mimic their style or style because they think it’s cool. But this can lead to low self-esteem, in the worst case to psychological consequences or suicide, as they fail to be and look like their role models or not get enough likes and subscribers and thereby start to doubt themselves. There are also many haters, people who express their dislike on the Internet and who are insulting when a video is published. Such insults are often enough to cause adolescents to change their behavior to please others.
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