Tik tok has been an app that has been blowing up the charts lately. This is because of the content it produces it has such a broad base audience that anyone can get reeled in. The creativity behind this app while very smart, can also be very harmful to the human mind.
The very reason this app can be so harmful is because it makes people's attention spam shorter than what it's supposed to be. An attention spam is the ability to focus on the process or the task at hand. With Tik Tok causing are attention spams to grow shorter and shorter because the videos are thirty seconds long we don't see the harmful side too it. Notice how when you sit to read a book or study, you have to take breaks in between to look at your phone. Well the main reason for this is because everything that occurs in are brain we train it to be there. So once we create the habit of scrolling through quick thirty second videos for long periods of time we aren't able to function at full potential anymore.
Tik tok just like other apps also have the ability to show teenagers harmful content that can affect them in the future. They target what they think you might want to see, but an app with that much power can show you whatever it pleases. According to the article TikTok may push potentially harmful content to teens within minutes, study finds "TikTok may surface potentially harmful content related to suicide and eating disorders to teenagers within minutes of them creating an account, a new study suggests, likely adding to growing scrutiny of the app’s impact on its youngest users (Kelly)." This app impacts the way teenagers and growing adults think and can be very harmful if not carefully watched over.
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