Emirates News – Zahra Khalifa:
Some mothers with their children face the dangers of using social media, and excessive use of the mobile phone, which leads to addiction, especially programs that negatively affect the child, and these programs are Tiktok, which causes great harm to children.
Among these damages:
Exposure to inappropriate content: As the Tik Tok application contains many harmful videos whose content includes the words +18, so it is advised that parents should keep their children away from the Tik Tok application.
The dangers of Tik Tok increase from time to time, especially on children, as children can be severely exposed to electronic bullying, that is, on the Internet, as the Tik Tok platform has many people, users and adolescents, and each of them expresses his opinion that children may be exposed to bullying in the form of Their bodies or shapes and this will have a significant negative impact on them in the future.
Also, one of the risks of watching tiktok for children is the lack of privacy for the data in the Tik Tok application, as the Tik Tok application depends on advertisements, which must collect the largest data regarding users, as the application obtains the site and phone contacts for the future, and this can negatively affect the children .
Tik Tok, through the content presented to it, affects the ideas and knowledge of children, as the child’s beliefs are built on these random foundations that are not governed by controls or standards, and there is no doubt; The child’s awareness is formed as the community that he sees on “Tik Tok” as the closest and beloved community to the original community, the reality in which the child is supposed to grow up in the future.
The child neglects food and drink, due to his attention, which attracts him completely, the application and the contents that he sees as an interesting meal for him, and with time he may suffer from problems in the lack of some vitamins and elements important to him and his health.
