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TikTok is not considered safe for children and should never be used without parental supervision. The new TikTok 2021 update will now default new accounts for users aged 13-15 to “private”, meaning they are restricted from DMs and interactions from strangers.
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Read More »However, there is a harmful, even dangerous, side to some of these challenges on TikTok. The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) says young people should be careful when attempting to recreate moves by professional dancers, or when taking part in challenges on social media. RAD Artistic Director Gerard Charles said in an interview with the Stage, that while the platform can be a great inspiration for amateur dancers, supervision from a trained teacher is key to avoiding injury. “Watching dance on TikTok can provide great inspiration, but without an experienced and qualified teacher who understands physical development and age-appropriate movement, it is all too easy for copying what is seen on social media to lead to injuries,” he said. American actor Kyra Sedgwick was pictured with an ice pack on her wrist after attempting the “Footloose Drop”, a TikTok dance trend, and in 2020, a spate of TikTok users reportedly became injured after attempting a complicated set of moves to “WAP” by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion during the first COVID lockdown. Far more worryingly, on 25th August 2022, 14-year-old Leon Brown was found unresponsive in his bedroom at this home in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire. His mother, Lauryn Keating, reported that his friends said that they had been doing the viral “blackout challenge” during a Facetime call. This is allegedly the same TikTok challenge blamed for the death of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee in April 2022. Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, found him unconscious at her home in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, with a ligature around his neck, which led her to believe that he may have been doing an online challenge that went wrong. He was taken to hospital with traumatic head injuries. Doctors at the Royal London declared that Archie was “brain dead” and moved to withdraw life support after three weeks as it was in the best interests of the child. What followed was a traumatic and heart-wrenching fight through the courts by Archie’s family to prevent this from happening. A fight that they finally lost on 1st August, when the Court of Appeal rejected a request to postpone ending his treatment and his care was ended at midday the next day. On 6th August 2022 outside the Royal London Hospital Archie’s mother announced that her son had died. The Blackout Challenge is not as new as you may think, as it actually started back in 2008 as a choking game, but it is now doing the rounds on TikTok and therefore reaching an audience in a different mode. It is not known who created Blackout Challenge, but in 2016 a report circulated that warned about the choking game making a return to school playgrounds via YouTube. Any videos that have since been posted on TikTok of users trying to attempt the challenge have been blocked by TikTok, as those looking to watch the horrific challenge take place by searching Blackout Challenge receive a notice that the term has been banned for violating guidelines. However, in July 2022, two parents sued the social network TikTok in the US, claiming its “dangerous” algorithms are to blame for their children’s deaths. The lawsuit claimed that “at all times relevant, TikTok’s algorithm was designed to promote ‘TikTok Challenges’ to young users to increase their engagement and maximise TikTok’s profits”. (source: the Irish Mirror)
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Read More »The world will increasingly become one community. SMS text messaging will virtually disappear, perhaps only remaining for emergencies, as messaging apps take over. Cloud content will increase as people become comfortable with the concept and begin to release their psychological attachment to ownership.
In this excerpt from Understanding Social Media: How to Create a Plan for Your Business That Works, digital marketing expert Simon Kingsnorth presents 10 predictions on the future. If we continue to believe in Moore’s law, which has proved itself reliable to date, then we can expect significant increases in computer and internet connection speed over the coming years. If we consider Google’s Loon project we can also expect the number of internet users to grow as internet penetration grows. If we assume that consumer confidence in the internet also continues to grow then we can expect more people to shop online, and if we look at Amazon’s delivery drones then we can see this becoming the norm. All of the above indicates to me that there are several directions that social media will take, and so I will conclude by making some bold forecasts. Biz Stone, founder of Twitter, recently stated that he believes social media is ‘just getting started’. So there is a long road ahead, and I would encourage you to try to expand on this list:
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