Tik Tok is fully in line with the era of “rapid change” we live in where “nothing lasts and things pop up and disappear very quickly”.
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Mental health of users … sponsored by “Tik Tok”
It is no longer a secret that the impact of social networks on the mental health of users, but the rise of the “Tik Tok” platform is a prominent station in this context due to the negative behaviors it produces on an individual and collective level.
In this context, a YouGov survey showed that 54% of young people between 18 and 24 in the Middle East and North Africa “fear being judged negatively by friends and family when they talk about their mental health”.
And 65% of respondents said their mental health is as important as their physical health.
But the important turning point of the survey is the willingness of 59% of the 35-44-year-old group to express their mental health through social media.
According to these figures, TikTok announced the launch of a mental health campaign “building a support space where the platform community feels able to speak honestly.”
The controversial social platform has not addressed the scientific evidence of a large number of psychologists on the harms of addiction in the use of its applications.
“Tik Tok” in its characteristics is perfectly in line with the “rapidly changing” era we live in, where “nothing lasts and things pop up and disappear very quickly”.
The app is designed to stimulate this “instant” consumerism among its more than one billion users. Perhaps the most prominent weapon of the Chinese application lies in its algorithms, which allow anyone who does not even have a large number of followers to publish content in a “viral” way, or to release a new cry regardless of the banality of the content of this cry or its harms, repercussions, dangers and results.
Just click on the application icon to play the videos automatically, unlike other social networking applications, as “Tik Tok” was designed to watch videos endlessly. And watch a few seconds of any video so that the artificial intelligence built into the app determines your interests and what might interest you.
