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tiktOk – PAReNts bewARe

BY NICOLEEN DAVIES, DIRECTOR LIFE TALK FORUM

tiktok, the latest craze, ikTok is a free app that allows dance, animals – just about anything.
users to express their creativity According to TikTok, “It’s raw, real, and
is used by nearly one Tand imaginations in short video- without boundaries . . . It’s from the
billion users and is more sharing format. It started off as a gut, ‘come as you are’ storytelling told
in 15 seconds.” You can add music, or
simple lip-syncing app but has evolved
viral than Youtube and to allow users to create and share no music, sound effects, filters, trim,
Instagram. their videos, featuring any musical cut, add emoji’s, merge – just about
genre within various video categories anything you can think of. The result
such as DIY, sport, food, comedy, is that TikTok influencers are creating

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