This article has it right, TikTok challenges are a big problem, parents must get involved

With the ban of TikTok looming, I’ve said for awhile now that it may not solve the problems it apparently has been the prime target of.

I normally don’t use sites like KNX to get tech news, but I look occasionally to see what’s going on.

The article is titled Psychologist talks about TikTok trend that sent Orange County woman to hospital and I thought it was an interesting title for the article.

I’ve read it and its a few minutes. It talks about the fact that teens especially don’t have the thinking skills to make sound decisions.

Its not necessarily TikTok’s problem, although we know that these challenges are only on this platform from what I can gather.

They link to a challenge to where someone put a bucket on someone’s head and filmed the results. I don’t know what was in the bucket or what but it did send someone to the hospital.

It links to an interview which was done with this psychologist.

This proves that social media can have anything they want on there and without moderation to determine if it violates rules or could be dangerous, its an unmoderated platform.

It links also to this challenge from what I could gather.

I’m posting this to the tech blog for people to see what’s going on.

The article also indicates that parents should get involved. Social Media will not get involved with things like this. Parents must ask children what they expect and get them to understand rationally.

I guess we’ll see what eventually happens. Its all about belonging and fitting in socially, says the article. There’s plenty more, feel free to read the article and then let us know what you think.