TikTok & Young Kids

Was recently at a kids birthday party and there was a face painter/fake tattoo artist. One of the tattoos was the TikTok symbol (unbeknownst to me). Anyway a 7 year old girl got the TikTok tattoo and was showing it to my five year old saying “look it’s TikTok”. I am 43 and don’t watch TikTok and certainly don’t let my 5 year old watch it. I only know it to basically be brain rot with short videos of people dancing or doing other mindless nonsense. My question is are kids that young really watching TikTok? Is there even content that is friendly for kids of such a young age? Is there like a “TikTok Kids” version like there is a kids YouTube? That short form video content clearly can’t be good for a child’s developing brain. But this 7 year old clearly knew what TikTok was so I can only assume she watched it before or her parents show videos to her. Are yall really letting your very young children watch that mindless nonsense?

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Hauntedbunnydoll•12 months ago•1

Yes my sister is eight and has two tvs a vr headset and a phone and all she does is sit inside and when I visit with her all she speaks is brainrot it makes me upset so bad sometimes I just wanna strangle her but I don’t because I still love her

PurplePorcupine8•12 months ago•1

Yes, there are lots of cute/funny animal videos along with science videos and how to videos. I’ve learned everything from crochet techniques to cleaning hacks to basic plumbing skills. (Very basic, but still.) I like to get recipes from TikTok and some of them are great for kids interested in cooking because they can watch how the recipe comes together.

Of course there is brainrot as well, but TikTok is no different from the rest of the internet: there’s useful, instructional stuff, there’s silly nonsense, and there’s toxic garbage. I would not allow a kid to watch it unsupervised, but I would say the same of most of rest of the internet.

bastard84•12 months ago•1

Thats exactly what tik tok was designed to do

TikTok & Young Kids

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