TikTok brings a new limitation for teens
TikTok will prevent teens from using the app unconsciously, with a 60-minute screen time for users under the age of 18.
Today, TikTok shared a new blog post under the "safety" category, announcing that it is taking precautions to prevent teens from misusing the app. The company has contacted academic researchers and experts beforehand and set a new 60-minute timer for teens after the consultation.
The blog post said, "In the coming weeks, every account belonging to a user below age 18 will automatically be set to a 60-minute daily screen time limit. While there's no collectively-endorsed position on the 'right' amount of screen time or even the impact of screen time more broadly, we consulted the current academic research and experts from the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children's Hospital in choosing this limit."
TikTok's new feature will apply to all the accounts, including new and existing ones. However, teens will have the chance to disable it under one circumstance. If they disable it and spend over 100 minutes in one day, the app automatically asks them to set a screen time limit. Teens under 13 years old will also get a 60-minute screen time limit by default, and a parent or guardian will need to set or enter an existing passcode to enable 30 minutes of additional watch time.
Three new features to Family Pairing
Family Pairing was introduced three years ago, which allows parents and teens to customize their safety settings based on individual needs. TikTok revealed three new features coming to Family Pairing; customize daily screen times, screen time dashboard, and mute notifications. "Caregivers will be able to use Family Pairing to customize the daily screen time limit for their teen," says the blog post. Secondly, parents will be able to see their teens' summary of TikTok usage, including time spent on the app, the number of times TikTok was opened, and a breakdown of total time spent during the day and night. Lastly, caregivers will be able to mute notifications which can be used at times that are too important to be interrupted.
"Family Pairing is an opportunity for parents and teens to collaborate on developing healthy online habits. It's not parental control, it's parental involvement and an opportunity for parents and teens to learn from each other," said ConnectSafely President and CEO Larry Magid.
This is not the first time TikTok has set a privacy setting for teens. The social media platform has also set users between 13-15 to have their accounts private by default. Moreover, you must be 16 or over to use the direct messaging option and at least 18 to host a LIVE. Social media is not the safest place for teens, and TikTok reportedly continues to invest in improving the current tools while adding more safety features.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.