TikTok and Mental Health

[Arnold]

TikTok is being investigated in the United States by a coalition of state attorneys general for any possible adverse effect the social media content can have in young people, especially in children and teens. Maura Healey, one of the attorneys generals said "the investigation will mainly focus on the techniques used by TikTok to boost young user engagement such as increasing duration of time spent and frequency of engagement in the platform.

They are trying to understand why TiKTok is better in capturing young audience.IT has been found that young people are spending more time on TikTok compared to Facebook or even youtube.

This is not the first time when TikTok has come under investigation. IN 2019, the social media was made to pay $5.7 million in settlement for violating users privacy rights of teens and kids under 13 years of age.

 

[Bizdustry]

TikTok aside, I think a lot of social media websites can impact mental health negatively, especially for the younger one's out there. They feel like they've got to make every photo, every selfies, and every reel perfect otherwise they won't be friends with their group in real life. Basically boils down to peer pressure.

 

[Shortie]

I can understand why TikTok ended up in this situation and I do hope that they are putting things in place to prevent it continuing.

Every social media platform has the ability to affect a persons mental health, it can be through what they see going on in the world, how social media implies how life should be even though it is false is also one of the biggest ways people are affected by social media when it comes to their mental health.