How to make $2million+ on Roblox, Roville!! Jewelry shop that will make you rich on roville!!😲👏

 

Tiktok mashup 2020

 

Building a trap for a hater in Roblox, Bloxburg

 

Online School Routine Bloxburg Roleplay

 

Bloxburg Trick or treating roleplay!🎃👻

 

Pink Modern Mansion Tour on Roblox, Roville!

 

How Roblox became the 'it' game for tweens😲

Article link: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/tech/roblox-explainer/index.html

Video games are having a moment during the pandemic, perhaps none more so than an oddball create-your-own game sandbox called Roblox.

If you're a tween, there's a very good chance you're playing Roblox. About 75% of American children ages 9 through 12 play Roblox regularly with friends, according to the company. During the pandemic, kids flocked to Roblox to throw virtual birthday parties and other in-game events that were no longer as safe to hold in-person. In July, gamers spent 3 billion hours playing Roblox, twice as much time as in February.

Roblox is big business: It surpassed $2 billion in lifetime revenue just from mobile players last week. That's why Roblox earlier this month filed confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. The company declined to say when it would debut detailed financial information, but it was recently valued at $4 billion this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company declined interviews, citing a quiet period before the initial public offering.

Roblox is essentially a digital sandbox where kids can build their own games -- anything from a simulation of running a virtual restaurant to adopting a pet. The entire platform is made up of user-generated games, many of them created by children and teens who have made millions of dollars through the platform.

Since its release in 2006, it has amassed millions of players who socialize and let their imaginations run wild. They play games such as digital hide and seek together and even kid-friendly horror games. Schools, camps, Girl Scout troops and many other organizations use Roblox to teach kids coding. And it has become a quasi-social-network for children.

Katie Salen Tekinbaş, a game design professor at the University of California, Irvine, estimates that the virtual camp nonprofit Connected Camps she co-founded, which teaches kids how to build Roblox games, saw attendance jump to 10,000 over the summer, while previous years typically saw 2,000 attendees.

"I think it does begin to open up pathways for young people, particularly into the tech sector, which is hard to get into," said Tekinbaş.

Getting Paid

For the platform's most successful developers, Roblox is more than just fun: It's a paying job. The Roblox platform offers tools and tutorials for young developers to customize and create their own titles that can easily be monetized. They can sell in-game items like virtual clothes or pets for real money.

The company recently announced its developers were on track to earn over $250 million this year.

"I do this because I enjoy it. The fact that I get paid just means I don't have to get a job," said CJ Oyer, a 22-year-old Roblox game developer and game design student in Indiana, in a video shared with CNN Business.

Oyer began playing Roblox as a 10-year old and made his first game in 2008. He has now earned six figures developing a series of games, played tens of millions of times, where people can roleplay as their own superheroes.

With his excess earnings, Oyer turned to charity work, giving out an estimated 40 loans to help people pay for college.

"What makes it fascinating is that it's relatively untapped as a target market for a lot of professionals, which is surprising because it's a cash-generating machine from top to bottom," said Alisha Karabinus, an assistant professor and games researcher at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

Roblox games are relatively easier to make compared to developing and producing games on rival engines like Unity, whose stock has risen to over $97 after launching last month at $68, and Epic Games' Unreal Engine. Epic, a private company, is valued at $17.3 billion, while Unity, which was valued at $6 billion last year, more than doubled its valuation to over $20 billion after it went public.

Challenges

Unlike many other video games, Roblox is primarily aimed at children under the age of 13. Roblox games are more bite-sized than the titles for PlayStation and Xbox and more focused on multiplayer interactions. That opens up the platform to a myriad of responsibilities, including offering strong parental controls and educating parents on how to use them.

Roblox has come up in the headlines when kids spend too much money without parental permission and when predators target children using the platform. And because it's made up of user-generated content that may include popular franchises like Pokémon, Roblox can often be the target of copyright complaints from other companies.

The platform has also been hacked multiple times, and because it adheres to child-privacy rules, it is limited in how much user data it can collect to track those hackers down. All those issues could challenge and potentially hurt Roblox's business if not addressed.

Roblox said in an August blog post that it has a team of 1,600 moderators who monitor the platform for inappropriate content and conduct safety reviews of all images, audio and video files using humans and machine scanning.

Karabinus, the professor, has discussed with her own children, who are 7 and 12, that while they can play on Roblox with friends of friends and in groups, they cannot play with strangers. And she doesn't allow them to spend real money, although she said she knows other parents who give their children allowance in Robux, Roblox's in-game currency.

"You can have a very safe experience if you're aware of things and careful," said Karabinus, who talks to her children about how to recognize scams.

Roblox said it works with parents to refund purchases if their child buys anything without consent.

Article link: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/tech/roblox-explainer/index.html

Building a first mansion in roville, ROBLOX

 

July 2020🤩💖📱🎶

 

My Roville house tour on Roblox!🤩 secret gold stash hidden in my mansion!

Tiktok clean mashup😘😜😂

 

Tiktok mashup july 2020🎶

 

Tiktok mashup 2020 🤩

 

Tiktok mashup

 

How to edit a tiktok🤩🤩🤩

 

Tips on how to make a GOOD Tiktok💖😂🤩

 

TikTok: The story of a social media giant📱🎶

Link to artical: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53640724

President Donald Trump has warned that he will ban TikTok unless an American firm buys its US operations. So how did an app attract millions of users but come to be seen as a national security risk in just two years?

Alone it stands, a red gummy bear atop a dimly lit stage, and the unmistakable voice of Adele singing. Then, as the unseen crowd joins in with the next line, the camera pans out to reveal hundreds more gummy bears singing along to Someone Like You.

It's silly and cute and extremely watchable. And for the fledgling video app TikTok, it did more in 15 seconds than marketing budgets of millions.

Posted in December 2018, it quickly racked up millions of views on the app but - more importantly - was picked up by thousands of copycats on other social networks.

The world was alerted to the app and TikTok has since attracted a vibrant, creative and young audience of hundreds of millions.

TikTok's origins are different to the fairytale start-up story we have heard before. This is not an empire built by a couple of friends with a great idea in their mum's garage.

It actually started life as three different apps.

The first was an app called Musical.ly, which launched in Shanghai in 2014 but had strong US business links and a healthy audience in that key market.

In 2016, Chinese tech giant ByteDance launched a similar service in China called Douyin. It attracted 100 million users in China and Thailand in the space of a year.

ByteDance decided it was onto something and wanted to expand under a different brand - TikTok. So, in 2018 it bought Musical.ly, folded it in, and began TikTok's global expansion.

TikTok's secret lies in its use of music and an extraordinarily powerful algorithm, which learns what content users like to see far faster than many other apps.

Users can choose from a huge database of songs, filters and movie clips to lipsync to.

It's inspired some huge trends like Lil Nas X's Old Town Road or Curtis Roach's Bored in the House. Even the BBC News theme tune went viral as Brits made light of daily coronavirus briefings.

Many people will spend most of the time on the For You Page. This is where the algorithm puts content in front of users, anticipating what they will enjoy based on content they have already engaged with.

It's also where it shows content it thinks could go viral. The idea is that if the content is good it will travel, regardless of how many followers the creator has.

Many TikTok communities have emerged, brought together by the types of content they enjoy or their sense of identity.

Communities like "Alt" or "Deep" often feature creators who aren't necessarily looking to fill their wallets but who are simply on the platform to make funny or informative content. For them, it's not about winning the attention of big brands - it's about finding like-minded people.

The growth of TikTok and its sister app Douyin have been rapid.

In July last year the apps already had one billion downloads worldwide, of which 500 million were active users. A year later they were on two billion downloads and about 800 million active users.

The app's rapid growth has also put TikTok at the forefront of the minds of politicians. What does it mean to have a Chinese app so quickly become a large part of modern life?

To read more go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53640724

Go check out my titkok accounts!

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Bella Poarch's most popular Tiktoks

 

Tiktok Mashup🤩

 

September 2019 Tiktok songs!!

 

What is Tiktok?🤔

 

Microsoft get REJECTED by Tiktok!😲

 

TikTok rejects Microsoft bid at eleventh hour!

BBC ARTICLE

Microsoft has said that its offer to buy the US operations of hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok has been rejected, paving the way for Oracle to secure a last-minute deal.

US President Donald Trump gave a 15 September deadline for the Chinese-owned app to sell or shut down.

The Trump administration claims TikTok and other Chinese apps are national security threats.

Microsoft and Oracle led the race to buy TikTok from Chinese firm ByteDance.

TikTok is a hugely popular video sharing app - which has been downloaded 2 billion times globally - where people make and upload 15 second clips.

The Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported that Oracle, which sells database technology and cloud systems to businesses, had won the bidding war, citing people familiar with the matter.

Earlier reports said Oracle was seriously considering buying TikTok's businesses in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand with investment firms, including General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital.

A TikTok spokesperson told the BBC the firm was "not commenting on either the Microsoft development nor the Oracle speculation".

What did Microsoft say?

On Sunday Microsoft announced that “ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft. We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests.”

“We look forward to seeing how the service evolves in these important areas,” its statement added.

This paves the way for Oracle, who Mr Trump said would be "a great company" to take over TikTok's US operations last month.

Oracle's chairman Larry Ellison is a supporter of Mr Trump and held a fundraising event for him in February.

Earlier this month Mr Trump said the government should get a "substantial portion" of the sale price of TikTok's US unit if an American firm buys it.

However, there is some confusion over the deadline. Mr Trump's executive order gave a deadline of 20 September. But the US President has repeatedly said the deadline is 15 September.

Why is this happening?

Mr Trump ordered TikTok's owner ByteDance to sell its US business within 90 days or face being shut down.The forced sale of TikTok's US business is part of a wider crackdown on Chinese technology firms in America.

Mr Trump has said apps such as TikTok, WeChat and equipment maker Huawei pose a national security threat because data collected about users can be shared with the Chinese government. The Chinese firms deny this claim.

Article link:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54143025

Tiktok mashup september 2020

 

Tiktok dances😜

All Tiktok Mashup

Tiktok combined mashup!!!

Ultimate Tiktok Dance compilation ✨

Tiktok compilation of september 2020😆

September Tiktok Mashup🤩

Did you forget about these songs?😆

Try not to sing, dance or lip-sync!! How dd you do??😜💕🤷‍♀️😎

My favourite mashup at the moment! 😜

Addison VS Charli

Some Charli D' amelio and Addison Rae's Tiktoks

Viral Tiktoks 2020

The updated news on Tiktok

 Hi everyone!👋

As you have probably heard, tiktok is possibly being banned but many users of Tiktok do not think this anymore as Tiktok posted a video saying they are not going anywhere. So your probably wondering "Why might it be banned?" well, the answer to that is that Donald Trump thinks that  the users' data are not safe. Donald Trump was also pranked by Tiktokers to see how click the link below and watch the video!

https://tiktokfanatics.blogspot.com/2020/08/what-this-tiktoker-did-was-s-powerful.html

At first Tiktok was going to be banned in the USA but now it could get banned in the UK too! This is why many Tiktok users are saying to make sure to look at their Instagram and Youtube incase it does get banned so that their followers can still see their content. Many users are upset by this news.😥

Whilst all of this is happening Microsoft is wanting and trying to buy tiktok as they see doing it now gives them a bit of an advantage. Some tiktoker have made fun of this by posting videos say once Microsoft buys Tiktok the videos we see will just be about Microsoft's apps such as Word and XL. 

There has been no more updated news about this situation. So I do not know what will happen with that.🤷‍♀️

Maure to check out my tiktok accounts bellow!😜💕

@xsophiatx123

@xsophiatx

Trump threatens to ban tiktok"!!!!!!!!

Tiktok may be banned in UK?!

More On the Ban of Tiktok

Tiktok news

Hello everyone!👋

As you may have heard Trump wants to ban tiktok in the USA and many Tiktok users are upset by the news and are telling their followers to follow them on other social media incase it does happen.

Whats the reason?🤔

Trump states that it is because the data of tiktokers in the USA is not safe, although this may be true many think that it is also due to the fact that Trump got pranked by tiktokers.
To see how he got pranked click the link below:

https://tiktokfanatics.blogspot.com/2020/08/what-this-tiktoker-did-was-s-powerful.html

Are the rumors true??😲

Well, Tiktok posted a video saying they are not going anywhere so users on Tiktok no longer think the banning of Tiktok will happen.

This is giving microsoft an opportunity to try and take over tiktok to know more information on this click the link below:

https://tiktokfanatics.blogspot.com/2020/08/microsoft-wants-to-tave-over.html


Make sure to follow my Tiktok accounts!😜💕

@xsophiatx123
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Have a great day everyone!

Microsoft wants to tave over?!😲

What This Tiktoker did was so powerful!!!

Will Tiktok be banned form the USA???

Will TikTok get banned🤔😭😱

2020 Tiktok mashup

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Tiktok dance trends 😁✨✨🤩

Charli Vs tony 🤩Who won?

Addi VS Charli battle ✨✨✨

Addison VS Charli ✨✨✨🤩🤩🤩

How Tiktok has been helping people during lockdown😁✨

Hey everyone,✋

During Quarantine, many more people have been using Tiktok as we are stuck at home with not much to do and its a great way to be entertained!

Tiktok has helped many families to cope with lockdown.

Tiktok is great as it has lots of fun dance trends, hilarious pranks and its full of creativity!!! 💃😎
The Tiktok community is also extremely supportive too! In these hard times its good to sometimes take your mind off things so why not go ahead and watch some inspiring videos? Or why not pull a hilarious prank on those you are in lockdown with?😜

Tiktok doesn't just have to be YOUR thing, why not involve the family too?
You could make a family account!!

You could also get your friends involved and do challenges such as seeing who can become Tiktok famous first!!

Stay safe 


My Tiktok accounts:

@xsophiatx    
@xsophiatx123

Tiktok compilation😁😁😁

TIKTOK MASHUP✨

10 minute Mashup✨🤩

June Tiktok songs🤩🥰✨👏

30 minutes of tiktok songs🧡

What is Tiktok all about?🤔✨

Hey everyone!.👋👋👋

Today I’m going to be telling you what Tiktok is all about and why people love it so much.

What is Tiktok?

Well its an app that many have downloaded, on Tiktok users post short videos of them doing the latest trends and making up their own. Users gain likes and follows and users can also comment on others posts to share their opinion or to support them.🤝

Now onto what it’s all about…

Many people love Tiktok for its funny trends or for the amazing dances, it’s a great way to show creativity and to show off a little. Trends are often made by famous Tiktokers and many users take part in them. (I personally love the hilarious ones and when people prank one another🤣) A lot of people have become famous for being on Tiktok too!

Make sure to check out my Tiktok accounts:

@xsophiatx @xsophiatx123

Stay Safe

Amazing🤩🤩🤩Tiktok mashup❗❗❗

Funny tiktoks 😂🤣🤣😁🤩

More HILARIOUS tiktoks 🤣🤣🤣

Really Funny Tiktoks!!!😂😂🤣🤣🤩

Another mashup🤩😍

NEW Tiktok Mashup❗❗❗

THE BEST OF TIKTOK June 2020🤩🤩

🌺👑Why you should be on Tiktok👑🌺

🌈Reasons why you Should be on Tiktok🌈

Tiktok is a fun and creative app that allows users to express themselves. Many Teens and kids are on tik tok and it's quite hard to find a teen without it! On Tiktok users post short videos of them doing the latest trends or of them making them themselves! It's a Tiktok is a great way for anyone to be inspired as there are lots of creative things.

Reason 1
Tiktok really allows you to express yourself and your emotions. You can give your opinion on things and share information with others. Tiktok is also a great way to give feedback and support.👑👑👑

Reason 2
Tiktok also has amazing dance trends that you can hop onto, the songs are so upbeat and will just want to make you dance!!! I personally love it for this reason.💃💃💃

Reason 3
The humour on Tiktok is great! There are hilarious people and trends that you HAVE to try out!!! Tiktok is a great all to go on if you like to laugh!😂😂😂

Stay safe everyone and try to be positive about things.💗
Make sure to check out my Tiktok accounts @xsopiatx and @xsophiatx123

Charli D'amelio Tiktoks😍😍😍😜👏👏👏

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TIKTOK COMPILATION OF MAY 2020!!✨✨✨✨

1000 TIKTOK SONGS!!😱😍😍😍😱😱💖✨

Tiktok mashup😜😱😍

Does tiktok need mew trends or new updates?🤔😍✨

Hi everyone!😜

How are you all?

Recently I have been thinking that I would like Tiktok to have a few updates. Don’t get me wrong I LOVEEE Tiktok but sometimes it can get a little boring as it is just the same thing all of the time, or maybe instead of having updates we could start some new, fun trends, possibly new dances.

What do you all think? Let me know and hopefully we could then make some trends! Tiktok is incredibly fun!

Hope you are not to bored in Quarantine!💖

Stay safe.

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Make sure to check out my Tiktok @xsophiatx123 and @xsophiax (Both My Tiktok Accounts)✌💋

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COOL TIKTOK REMIX!!!

Funny- Hips Don't Lie Dance 😂

MAY 2020 TRENDS OF TIKTIOK😱😍

😱 Old tiktok😱

Tiktok mashup

✨✨TOP 15 TRENDING TIKTOK SONGS!✨✨

Tiktok Mashup💕

Quarantine tiktok challenges

Hey everyone!

Recently I have realized how being in Quarantine has inspired everyone to make quarantine challenges and have been on Tiktok a lot more because of how boring it has been!! Tiktok is a good way to pass time and a good way to be entertained. I like hopping onto trends! And would love to know what Quarantine Tiktok trends you all are doing!

Hope you all are not too bored!!

Stay safe

👀✨ Cannibal dance👀✨

Funny Jason Coffee Tik Tok 2020 - Try Not To Laugh Watching Jason Coffee😍

🤣🤣🤣Funny TikTok February 🤣🤣🤣

🌻🌊Funny TikTok March 2020🌊🌻

🍀🍦Funny TiktokApril 2020 🍦🍀

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🌈TikTok 2020 Mashup Clean🌈

TikTok Dance Mashup 2019/2020🌈😎😁

TikTok mashup

Charli D'amelio and Addison Rae TikTok Compilation

Addison Rae TikTok dances

🌈💡How I reached my 1,000 followers!💡🌈

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🌈💡How I reached my 1,000 followers!💡🌈
OMG OMG!!! WOW

I have got over 1000 followers yes 1k!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
You must read this; it has changed my life and been amazing!!!!!

Did I say I hit over 1k followers in a short time...


The thing I found with Tiktok is that if you want to be noticed you need to find a way to entertain the viewers and make them want to watch more of your videos.

Many users of Tiktok love to be entertained!😄😄

1.Make sure your followers and future followers are treated fairly and with respect.

2. 💡💡Major lightbulb moment💡💡 do not rush your Tiktok videos; take your time with your Tiktok Vids 😊 and do not post too much.

3. Give thanks and gratitude, I am so thankful to everyone who got me to 1000 follows and to everyone who liked and shared my videos!

4. Remember that the 1000s followers you have, aren’t just numbers, they’re people too and need to be treated like it.

Hence why I am so thankful to everyone and I am so appreciative.

5. Tiktok is an amazing app and is full of creativity, so don’t be scared to be yourself and show off a little.

Funny TikTok Challenges

November 2019 Tiktok trends

The name of the app Tiktok

Hello everyone!

I have found out a few things about the name of the app Tiktok.
Did you know…

‘Tiktok’ has two syllables and 6 letters
If you times them together you get the number 12.
There are 12 hours on a clock…
What noise does a clock make?
Tiktok!
Also, many people say Tiktok makes them loose track of time…
We keep track of time by using clocks!
Do you think these are coincidences?
Don’t get me wrong as a user myself I love Tiktok, it helps me learn new dances, communicate with friends and it makes me laugh!
Tiktok is so entertaining and funny. There are so many amazing creations on there and many cool and silly dances!

Stay safe everyone!

Number One Baby Tiktok Dance

Funny TIK TOK March 2020

TikTok Dance Tutorials

Brent Rivera's Funny TikToks

Ultimate TikTok Dance Compilation

𝕥𝕚𝕜𝕥𝕠𝕜 𝕞𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕦𝕡🌸

Tiktok dance compilation of January-February 2020

The importance of trimming sounds and songs on Tiktok

The importance of trimming sounds and songs on Tiktok

Trimming down sounds and songs can be very important as it used to cut of inappropriate  or anything you would not want in your Tiktok video. I am going to tell you how to do it.

 

1.First, click the add sign at the bottom of your screen that will take you to make a new Tiktok.

2.Next, you will be taken to a screen like this where you will shots your videos. At the top of the screen click the sounds button and choose a song you would like in your video.

3.After that, click on the trim button on the right side of the screen and then drag the sound.

💙 Tiktok Mashup | March 2020 💙

TikTok Mashup 2019/2020

The best Tiktok compilations of November 2019

Tik tok mashup

TikTok Compilation of October 2019

Favorite TikTok Dances

My favorite TikTok Dances

I have been on TikTok from 2019!!!

WOW can’t believe how fast 2019 went but loved all the cool stuff on TikTok, this is just a short TikTok article on some crazy, trending TikTOk dances I have done, seen and attempted to do!

Why is TikTok so crazy and fun? 😊 😊

TikTok has amazing dances made by other TikTokers and soon then become a trend and many people on TikTok will then attempt the dances. TikTok is also well known for the humor side of it, some people use TikTok to entertain others by sharing memes, jokes and funny videos. TikTok has lots of great music and songs too.

TikTok dances I have attempted/seen others attempt:

-Lottery (Renegade) K Camp                         

- Say So Doja Cat

-Round of applause K'ron 

-No idea Don Toliver

-Savage Megan Thee Stallion

-Out west Travis Scott


There are lots of other great TikTok dances but the ones above are some of the most popular on TikTok.

TikTok Mashup (March 2020)

Charli D'amelio Famous Tiktoker Most Viewed TikToks

TikTok: everything you need to know about the video production app

You may have heard of Musical.ly (think of it as a kind of karaoke platform). TikTok is the new name for the expanded version of the app, which enables users to upload, watch and create short videos of between three and 60 seconds. Here’s what you need to know:

From musical.ly to TikTok:

• Until recently, Musical.ly was used by millions of people to express themselves through singing, dancing and comedy.

• On 2 August 2018, Musical.ly merged with TikTok to create a 'bigger and better short-video community'.

• Musical.ly users moved automatically to TikTok.

• TikTok was the world's most downloaded app in the first quarter of 2018, with a million downloads. It has more than 500 million users globally.


What exactly is TikTok?

• TikTok users can make their own short videos on the mobile app, and often like to have music accompany their videos. The users have creative control over the videos.

• Other TikTok users can ‘react’ to videos they see by filming their responses alongside the original video; or ‘duet’ by making a video alongside another video. 


Here’s one example of how special effects are used, in the Rain Control Challenge.

How TikTok works:

• People aged 13 and over can download the app which has a 12+ rating in app stores - though, as, with other age-restricted platforms, parents need to ensure their children are the appropriate age to use TikTok.

• After downloading the TikTok app, users can start creating their own videos or watch content created by other users.

• The content runs across all kinds of subject matter - pets, arts, comedy, sports, food, travel, music, and games. Users can ♡ the content they enjoy to see similar videos.

• Users can also participate in hashtag challenges by clicking the ‘Discover’ button, with new challenges added every week.
Creating and editing videos is simple, with different effects, filters and stickers to choose from.

• Users can easily share videos on other social media platforms, such as Instagram or Facebook, and users can build up followings and reputations – see, for example, street magician Magic Singh.


What to do before starting to use the app

• Users should read the TikTok’s Community Guidelines.

• Information can be found here.


Are there privacy settings?

• The app has come under fire for a lack of privacy settings in the past but users now have privacy options, including the ability to make their accounts private; choosing who can comment on or download their videos, and who can duet with them. Users can also block other users. Messaging on TikTok has always been private and messages can only be sent between friends.
• Recently, TikTok introduced a new feature that lets users filter comments by using up to 30 words that they can choose themselves. By activating this, users can make sure no one can post comments under videos using words they find unpleasant or harmful.

• All of these options can be found on the top right of the screen (three dots) inside the ‘Privacy and Settings’.

• You can look at TikTok’s safety videos to learn more: @tiktoktips


What about screen time?

• Parents can help children manage their screen time by selecting how much time they would like their child spend on TikTok (40, 60, 90, 120 minutes per day). This feature is password-protected; when users reach their limit they have to enter a password to continue. Parents can set the password to be in total control of screentime.

• TikTok has another account setting, ‘restricted viewing mode’, which can be used as parental control.  Once enabled, this setting will limit the appearance of content that might not be appropriate for all audiences. As with the above feature, this setting can be activated via a password.


What’s the best way to help children stay safe on TikTok?

The best way to keep your child safe is to be as informed about the app as you can, particularly about its safety and digital wellbeing features. Find out what your child uses it for and talk to them about what they enjoy about it.
There are some practical considerations to bear in mind when discussing TikTok with your child:
1) Make sure your child is old enough to use the app.
2) If your child has their account set to ‘public’, be sure they understand what this really means. The ‘private’ setting, allowing your child to share their content only with approved followers, may be the safer option. Be sure to discuss with your child whom they allow to follow them. If they’re accepting requests from people they don’t know, this could expose them to risk. You can make your profile private by clicking on the profile tab in the app, then go to the three-dot menu in the top-right corner, click on 'Privacy and Safety', then toggle 'Private account'.

3) It’s worth making sure that your child knows how to keep their identity secure, by for instance not including any personal information, such as name, address, phone number or age in their profile. Make sure they know not to film videos wearing their school uniform or personalised clothing, and that they shouldn’t give out personal information. They should be particularly aware of the location they film in, and not film outside their home, which might mean inadvertently revealing where they live.

4) Make sure your child knows how to report inappropriate content and that they should speak to a trusted adult if they have any concerns about anything on the app.  If you or your child want to report a specific video, click on the 'share' icon in the bottom-left corner of the video, then click report and follow the on-screen instructions.

If you want to report a specific user, you can do this by accessing their profile and then clicking on the three-dot menu in the top-right corner. An option saying 'Report' will come up: follow the on-screen instructions.

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