Douyin, now the hottest short video app, can be said to have swept the whole of China in the past two years.
At present, Douyin has entered overseas and has a foreign name, TikTok..
Parents in Australia need to be aware that your child may already be obsessed with TikTok. And the potential risks, you need to understand.
Douyin to the world
According to statistics, every month, about 500m people around the world are using the app, TikTok to download the app, TikTok to the first place in the world at one time, with footprints in 233countries and regions.
And users in the Australian market are also soaring.
In 2018, TikTok topped the list of popular app in Australia with 14 million downloads.
For young people, the way TikTok plays is no stranger:
Pick up your phone, choose a song, perform 15 seconds of singing video, post, wait for likes and comments.
It provides a variety of special effects, so that your short video to show cool effects.
The main contents include food, makeup, dance, travel, trick.
However, viral transmission is easily out of control, resulting in inestimable consequences.
Australian teenagers "fall"
Many parents may not have noticed, but in fact, more and more Australian teenagers (and even children) are playing TikTok.
According to its terms of service, only people over the age of 13 can use the app.
However, there are not many younger users.
Kelly (Keira), a girl from Melbourne, is 10 years old, and TikTok is the only social app she often opens except for video website.
She likes to watch online celebrity star Joe Josiva (JoJo Siwa), and now she's trying to make a video every day and share it with friends on her private account.
Many parents and related departments have criticized whether TikTok will have a negative impact on adolescents and children.
It has been criticized for involving a large number of privacy issues, including the exposure of children's information in location searches, and even in some cases, porn and malicious content will be found in applications.
Recently, Australia's Taiwan 9 investigation program A CURRENT AFFAIR exposed a potential risk under the TikTok boom.
'Like any other social media app, there are some traps on Tik Tok, ' said Julie Inman Grant, an electronic security officer.
"No matter what app, your child is using, whether it's a game, a dating site, or a social media app, as long as you have a chat feature or a way to promote social interaction, you need to be aware that an adult who is interested in your child will want to go where your child is and take them away," she said.
Program's producer forged a profile as a teenage girl.
A few minutes later, a stranger sent a personal message to the program group's inbox asking about the age of the "little girl" and saying she was forty years old.
The program group then reported the incident to TikTok, but so far TikTok has not taken any action.
They also reported comments from other users on the platform, but they were quickly deleted.
Offending the privacy of teenagers: heavy penalties!
Earlier this year, TikTok was fined $5.7 million for violating the American Children's Internet Privacy Protection Act, which requires parental consent for children's websites and online services before collecting personal information for children under the age of 13.
TikTok requires users to provide e-mail addresses, phone numbers, user names, profiles and avatars.
Users are also allowed to interact with others by commenting on videos and sending direct messages.
In addition, user accounts are made public by default, which means that the child's profile, user name, photo and video can be seen by other users, which is understood to be the largest civil fine imposed by the Federal Trade Commission in a child privacy case.
In France, 38 per cent of young people between the ages of 11 and 14 have TikTok accounts.
At the end of last year, the French police warned the parents of these potential dangers, saying that the young people's "It's possible to be the target of the actual crime behavior.".
In Australia, government has very clear rules for minors to surf the Internet.
According to law, Australian Internet users must be 18 years old and log in as real, while minors must sign contracts with Internet companies by their guardians.
Bad influence of vulgar content
Last year, the chatter had been criticized by the People's Daily, the People's Daily, for low-profile content.
Although Douyin has apologized, the statement is the cause of third-party outsourcing companies, while Douyin itself is not in place. People's Daily commented: making such a mistake, Douyin makes people tremble. Such an apology is too cheap to make a change, and to do it again!
A 16-year-old Douyin user, who has more than 200,000 followers on Douyin, has been reported to be a 16-year-old Douyin user who has more than 200,000 followers on Douyin. Most of the daily updates include school uniforms, singing from school and dancing on the playground.
One of them was a video of her dancing on the playground in a school uniform coat and ultra-short hot pants, attracting 150000 likes and more than 4000 comments, including vulgar comments with porn inducement.
Not long ago, the``warm and gentle'' of the jitter Internet was sealed, and many people suspect that the reason for being sealed was minor, and a series of black history was also picked out, and the value passed on the problem.
Such values directly affect a 15-year-old flower season girl, the Internet celebrity sister overnight fame, let her feel useless reading.
"15 years old, it's time to do something, it's time for leave school, it's time for nightclubs, it's time for plastic surgery, it's time to know the big money. It's time to be an Internet celebrity."
In the international market, the main user group of TikTok is also concentrated between the ages of 16 and 24, which is popular with young people, but this age group is also the most easily induced and incited people, and it is easy to "follow suit".
Due to the lack of content regulation, there are many "extremist content" on TikTok, including racism, explicit porn, violence and so on.
Attention of parents
In China, anti-addiction system, a teenager targeting short videos, went online this month.
"Youth anti-addiction system" built-in short video APP, users turn on APP for the first time every day, the system prompts users to set up "Youth Mode" in the form of a pop-up window. Users open, turn off "Youth Mode" need to enter the set in advance of the four-digit password.
In Australia, TikTok has launched a similar parental monitoring system.
Australian cyber security expert Julie said: "the security of our children is the first, we can not consider security issues afterwards. Responsibility really needs to be transferred directly to the platform provider itself."
Not only are underage users potentially at risk, but even some parents and users take the initiative to po short videos of their children.
For now, there are two potential dangers on TikTok:
One is that children will see inappropriate content, and the other is harassment from strange users.
For potential risks, Station 9 offers the following advice to parents of TikTok users:
1. Activate parent control mode for TikTok (filter out inappropriate video content)
2. Set up your child's account as a private account (unfamiliar users can't see your short video)
3. Check your child's comments on short videos(find out the problem and guide the child correctly).
4. Don't share videos about your location or school (protect your privacy)