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Today's Child

TIKTOK – PARENTS BEWARE

B Y NICOLEEN D A VIES, DIREC T OR LIFE T ALK F ORUM

TikTok, the latest craze, is
used by nearly one billion
users and is more viral than

YouTube and Instagram.

ikTok is a free app that allows users to express their
creativity and imaginations in short video-sharing
format. It started o as a simple lip-syncing app but

Thas evolved to allow users to create and share their
videos, featuring any musical genre within various video
categories such as DIY, sport, food, comedy, dance, animals
– just about anything. According to TikTok, “It’s raw, real, and
without boundaries . . . It’s from the gut, ‘come as you are’
storytelling told in 15 seconds.” You can add music, or no

music, sound e ects, lters, trim, cut, add emoji’s, merge –
just about anything you can think of. The result is that TikTok
in uencers are creating videos about everything, from

politics through to childhood stories.

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