TikTok will ban “kids” from signing up to their platform due to mental health issues.
Under-18s will, in the coming weeks, be blocked from artificially making their eyes bigger, plumping their lips and smoothing or changing their skin tone.
The restrictions will apply to filters – such as “Bold Glamour” – that change children’s features in a way that makeup cannot. Comic filters that add bunny ears or dog noses will be unaffected. The billion-user social media company announced the changes during a safety forum at its European headquarters in Dublin.
The effectiveness of the restrictions will depend on people using the platform under their real age, which is not always the case.
Why ban it for those under 18 only? Do you think older women can handle the anxiety and depression or need that anxiety and depression?
If you are 13 years old or less, you will be banned from signing up at all:
TikTok also announced it was tightening its systems to block users under 13 from the platform, which could mean that thousands of British children are turfed off the platform. Before the end of the year, it will launch a trial of new automated systems that use machine learning to detect people cheating its age restrictions.
How effective are these systems that currently enforce the age limit?
…the effectiveness of TikTok’s age restriction enforcement is “yet to be established”. It is due to start strictly enforcing over-13 age limits for social media users next summer, requiring “highly effective” age checks.
I wonder how many parents talk to their kids about the harms of social media and how fake it is. TikTok is just one of the plethora of platforms where unrealistic beauty is championed and promoted.
An impossible standard.
The irony of it all is stress and anxiety caused by social media can affect your skin, leading to acne, rashes, etc., further compounding the problem because now you need more concealer and makeup to keep that smooth skin!
This will harm not only our daughters, but our sons as well.
Boys who are addicted to seeing a standard of beauty that doesn’t exist, and girls who are used to seeing a standard of beauty that they can’t achieve.
This is the kind of behavior that will further the marriage crisis that we have.