“Family Safety Mode” lets adults control screen time and visible content

The video app TikTok's new "Family Safety Mode" allows parents to control their children's accounts to protect them from harmful content and excessive screen time. With this feature, TikTok developer ByteDance is responding to critics who accuse the platform of making cyberbullying and grooming easier and not doing enough to combat it.

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“Users expect a fun, authentic and safe experience from TikTok. “We want to help parents keep their children safe so they can continue to focus on what’s really important on TikTok – producing, sharing and enjoying creativity,” said Cormac Keenan, Head of Trust for TikTok in Europe .

With Family Safety Mode, children's accounts are linked to their parents' accounts. This allows adults to determine how long their children can use the app per day.

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You can also limit or completely ban direct messages to children. They can also determine what content the little ones are allowed to see on the social media platform.

TikTok is regularly criticized

The new feature has already been implemented in Great Britain and will also be released worldwide in the coming weeks. TikTok is regularly criticized for content that is harmful to minors. Skull Breaker Challenge has recently been causing a stir. These are videos in which a user's feet are pulled away from him by two other people while jumping, so that he falls on his back and also on the back of his head. Family Safety Mode is intended to alleviate concerns about negative influence from such content.

Source: pte
Article image: Shutterstock / By DANIEL CONSTANTE


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