You feel guilty for letting your kid on TikTok, don’t you. |
The boy in your hypothetical example is selling his gaming prowess. The girl in this case was selling herself. The income from her TikTok comes from men who like to look at teenage girls. That’s not a good population for a young girl to be associating with. What happened was horrible, and I do blame the parents for exploiting their daughter in this way. |
What? No. I’d be thinking that was a horrible waste of young peoples’ time—both the making and the watching of the videos. |
+1. The poster above clearly said all of tik tok is gross. And the person below pointed out that it has many useful qualities. |
Finally some sense. |
You are an adult with a fully formed brain ( I assume) You are not a child or teen. Huge difference!!! |
Oh, great -- you're back. |
| She used to go to Whitman. |
The girl? That doesn’t make sense. The family is originally from NJ, then moved to Florida. |
| DD said every boy wanted to copulate. |
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Geez - get over it. It’s another service. It may stay popular, or it may phase out in a couple of years. You can then complain about whatever comes next. Those damn kids with their rock and roll. Get off my lawn!
It is making a move into music that may prove successful. They are paying more than the other services and are not tied with right wing nuts so that is appealing. My kids’ band just released what passes for an album these days and have songs availability on TicTok. If all goes well they might make $10 from TicTok versus $1.40 from Spotify and Apple. (New bands release music more to generate a little buzz and get themselves bar and venue gigs.) |
Did you miss the part where the girl was stalked by another teenager who showed up at her house shooting a gun, and the dad ended up shooting him dead? This is not so much about TikTok as it is about the dangers of exploiting children on social media, regardless of the actual format. |
Happened regularly with Facebook. Still does. Did you complain about that too? |
No, that is not something that happened regularly with Facebook. Facebook is not monetized like TikTok. |
Tell me you don’t understand til Tom without telling me you don’t understand tik tok |