Who
doesn't know the application that hits nowadays? Yaps, exactly! TikTok! The
application, which was blocked by the Ministry of Communication and Information
Technology in 2018, has finally been reopened and has actually been
increasingly booming since the existence of Covid-19. TikTok itself is an
application to make short videos that provide unique and dancing effects and a
lot of songs in it that users can use easily with great results. Therefore,
this application has its own appeal from all ages to express their hobbies and
work through this application. But
who would have thought that along with its development, the sophistication of
this application not only had a positive impact such as sharpening children's
creativity in making short videos, but this application also had a negative
impact on its users, especially for children who were underage. At this time,
we can see that there are still a lot of videos uploaded by teenagers or
children that contain content that is unnatural and not according to their age.
What are the dangers of the TikTok application?
The following are the negative impacts of the TikTok application on
children.
1. TikTok
contains a lot of inappropriate content
If
we see, there is indeed a lot of content on Tik Tok that is not suitable for
children to watch. There are lots of Tik
Tok videos that contain harsh words, hate speech, and even obscene content. The
existence of these inappropriate videos can be harmful to the mental development
of children and make them imitate this unkind thing.
2.
Make
children addicted to playing TikTok There
are various kinds of videos on TikTok, this will attract the attention of the
children so that they forget the time. Children will be addicted and will
continue to open this application until they forget about the time and even
forget to study, and become lazy. Even worse, the effect of this addiction is
to make children introverted, rarely socialize because they are only focused on
their gadgets. In addition, this can
also affect children's emotions so that they get emotional faster when we warn
them or forbid them.
3. Trigger
excessive children's narcissism
As
we know, in this TikTok application, people are competing to get a large number
of likes and comments of praise from netizens to make them famous. This makes
TikTok users willing to do anything for the sake of content so that they are
viral and famous. Not a few of these
content creators from various ages from adults to children make content
behaving strangely, dancing indecently, even taking dangerous actions.
4. Damaging
children's morale and behavior
As
explained in the previous point, because of the number of videos that were
inappropriate and enlivened, this made more and more people to imitate them. For
example, we can see when there is a video of a child swaying together showing
off their bodies in school uniforms. This results in a loss of shame and morale
in children. They don't hesitate to do
this just for content. In addition, there are those who create content known as
“Prank” where someone will prank other people just for fun. Not a few also do this from funny things to
even endanger themselves and others. This is very detrimental to the morale and
behavior of the children.
The
use of TikTok is indeed prone to dangers for underage children who use it, as
the example described above. To address this, parents must also be proactive in
supervising the use of gadgets, especially the use of this application by
children. We as adults must be prepared to watch over the children around us so
that things that are not wanted happen to children.
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