The Tik Tok app is taking over the internet right now, even though most parents haven’t
ever heard of it.
Right now, tik tok is one of the worlds most downloaded apps.
Its especially popular among kids as young as the 3rd grade.
But experts are warning that tik tok is actually not appropriate for anyone under 16 because
it could pose a serious safety risk.
Like many other situations, where the kids go, the predators go, and this right here
is the dark truth of tik tok.
What is happening people, this is inform overload, I’m charlotte dobre, welcome back to another
video.
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Just don’t.
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you definitely don’t want to see that.
Alright lets talk about the cringiest app on the market right now, tik tok, which is
actually just as dangerous as it is cringy.
And I’m the queen of cringe, I know cringy.
I eat cringe for breakfast.
You’ve probably seen ads for tiktok on youtube, and people say that the ads give them the
creeps.
Theres entire reddit threads of people talking about how creepy the ads are.
If this is your first time hearing about tiktok, its a video sharing app that’s similar to
musicly and vine, but cringier.
Tiktok actually bought musicly a year ago for 1 billion dollars and essentially merged
the two apps.
Basically tiktok users make 15 second video clips and they use different special effects
and filters.
Most of the videos consist of people lip syncing to music or voiceover from popular films,
pretty women, dancing and parkour.
In the first quarter of 2018, Tiktok was the most downloaded app on IOS, and experienced
45.8 million downloads.
Tiktok launched in the US over the summer, but its been popular in china for quite a
while already, under the name Douyin. 500 million people use tiktok, 150 million use
it on a daily basis, and many of the people that are using it that often are kids.
internet security specialists are seriously concerned about how many kids are using tik
tok, and are especially concerned because their parents don’t know anything about
it.
Tik tok is rated 12 plus, but that might be too young a demographic considering what kind
of content is found on tik tok, and how many people use it.
Rick Floyd, information security specialist with the Greenville County school district,
says that tik tok could potentially expose kids to inappropriate videos and language.
Not to mention, tik tok is a huge social network.
When you post your videos on tik tok, you’re basically showing the entire world, which
opens up the possibility of being targeted by predators.
Because Tik tok connects young people to the worlds largest public communications platform,
theres bound to be weirdos, and a lot of them.
The youtube channel Luxury pranks posted a video on their channel a few days ago called
Catching A child predator, and it proves just how dangerous tik tok can be.
In the social experiment, they set up a hidden camera and got their decoy actress named zoe
to pose as a 16 year old, and post videos of herself dancing.
She was dmed by several old men, and the team invited over one man named drew.
The encounter was honestly one of the creepiest videos I’ve ever seen.
Drew was under the impression that zoe was underage and was recorded saying that he loves
young girls.
When the crew came out from hiding and confronted drew, he denied everything.
The video has almost 3 million views at the time of this recording.
Predators have free, unlimited access to children’s profiles and they are definitely trying to
take advantage.
Rick Floyd visits elementary and junior high schools to warn kids and parents about online
dangers, and when he visited a school recently, he became really concerned about how many
of the students were talking about tik tok.
Some of them already had stories of being targeted by strangers.
One child named Sami Garhat said that he got a friend request, and he joined them and it
ended up being a complete stranger who just tried to get him to tell them his information.
Sami left the group when this happened, but other people might not have done so in the
same situation.
According to Floyd, last year, 8 girls in the 3rd grade thought that they were talking
to a 12 year old boy with cancer on musicly, but an investigation revealed that it wasn’t
a 12 year old boy, but a 29 year old man from Kentucky.
Creepy.
Kids as young as 9 are using the app and exposing themselves to all kinds of dangers.
There are disturbing sexually suggestive selfie videos, and even videos of people implying
self harm.
The app doesn’t screen its users ages, even though most of the videos that are posted
are obviously children.
To make matters worse, tik tok actually requires a lot of your personal data.
When you sign up, you have to share your location, contacts and messages.
It only has 2 privacy settings, private or public, rather than just allowing you to share
your profile with your friends.
So before you download tiktok, be aware of the dangers, and if you’re still in school,
make sure your parents know that you’re using it.
At the end of the day, its up to parents to know what their children are up to, especially
when it puts their safety at risk.
Alright guys, that’s all I have for you on that, its time to respond to some comments.
Vines and gaming – I love watching ur videos also I love watching them secretly when im
in school.
The great thing about IO videos is if your teacher asks you what you’re watching you
can say that its for your project on current events.
Apex shots – charlotte will you marry me, preferably in Sweden.
I mean do I get a free trip to Sweden out of it?
Ppshamer – tik tok – hi honey what you need doday?
Weird Kiera – when I saw this I clicked immediately.
I guess I did my job then Oskar Louis Bogglid – what do Italians eat
on hallowen?
Creepy pastas.
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