A post shared by (@bowoalpenleibe) on Jul 1, 2018 at 7:55am PDTBowo Alpenliebe, also known as Prabowo Mondardo, is a Tik Tok muser who has become notorious, even among non-Tik Tok users, after a meet and greet event went wrong. On Monday, the 13-year-old, who has 790,000 followers on his Tik Tok account, organized a meet-and-greet event in East Jakarta, to which his followers were required to pay Rp 80,000 (US$5.57) admission.However, complaints arose after many fans, who had already paid, could not get to meet him, reportedly because the event was poorly managed. The protests quickly turned into public mockery of Bowo himself, as his followers stated that Bowo looked better on Tik Tok than in real life.Midwife's misstepOn June 30, Bekasi's Regional Commission for Child Protection (KPAD), visited a midwife in a mother and baby hospital in Bekasi, West Java, after the office received reports that the midwife used the face of one of her patients' babies to make a video for Tik Tok.Commissioner Rojak told kompas.com on June 30 that the midwife apologized to the parents of the baby and the family accepted her apology.
The family also said they considered the matter closed.In the video, the midwife held the small face of the sleeping baby and put some whiskers on it. Her video went viral and many people were upset by her action.15 minutes of fame for everyoneWhat has allowed Tik Tok to gain a cult following among minor users is the app's facility for allowing people to easily gain fame, social media expert Nukman Lutfie says. Such easy fame is something many young people crave in the era of social media.“Tik Tok allows users to make interesting content with its various features.
.Is the TikTok (formerly Musical.ly) app safe? A complete app review for parents.What is the TikTok app?Note:. For all practical purposes, the Musical.ly app no longer exists! If you’re wondering where our very popular Musical.ly app write-up went, please keep reading. Everything you need to know about the combined app is below!App Store Description: “TikTok is a global video community.
We make it easy for you to watch awesome short videos AND you can also make your own videos by capturing those funny and memorable moments to share with the world. Spice up your videos with our special effects filters, fun stickers, and so much more. Life’s moving fast, so make every second count.” On November 9, 2017, acquired Musical.ly, Inc for US $1 billion. Bytedance also owns the company TikTok and, on August 2nd of 2018, merged TikTok with the app and kept the name TikTok. And has over 300 million monthly active users, much bigger than Musical.ly’s reach.March 2019 update: TikTok has recently surpassed worldwide!Category: Photo & VideoAPP Store rating: 12+. Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence. Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes.
In China, the app is known as Douyin and has over 300 million monthly active users, much bigger than Musical.ly’s reach. Whilst TikTok is based around users uploading short videos of themselves, like good old Vine used to do, it doesn’t have the emphasis on music and songs like Musical.ly did.
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity. Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References. Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor. If your child was on Musical.ly, they’re now a Tiktok user., everyone who used Musical.ly woke up to find that the look and feel of the app changed completely over to TikTok.Is there pornographic content? When it comes to finding pornographic content while doing public searches, there is some.
There is a hidden doorway to a Google search through the Help Center in the “Privacy and Settings.” Parents, remember, these hidden Google searches do not obey the “limit adult content” in Restrictions. Sadly, there’s nothing that can be done in Restrictions to control those Google searches. Is the only service we know that forces a Google Safe Search, even in hidden browsers.Parents, remember, even if your child sets their account to private following the instructions below, your child can still search for inappropriate content.The app’s creator says age 13+ only, please. Although the app isn’t classified as social media, it still must comply with COPPA and underage data collection.
Even then, we’re uncomfortable with middle school students using this app unless parents are well aware of the risks.March 2019 update: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after failing to obtain parental consent for users under 13. TikTok collected names, emails, phone numbers, biographies, and photos of children under 13 (all of which by default is public access). The formal FTC complaint included reports of adults contacting children through the app.In response, TikTok is now shuttling users under 13 years old to a. From what I understand, this will happen automatically (as long as your child has the correct age in their profile–also there is nothing stopping someone older than 13 from putting in a birth date under 13 so they can use this part of the app). In this new app experience, personal information will not be shared and there will be limits on content and user interactions.
For example, users will be unable to share videos, comment on videos, message with other users, etc.TikTok has also launched. They show users how to report inappropriate content, enable restricted mode, limit amount of time spent on the app, control who comments on their videos, control who is able to message them, and a general video to encourage respectful behavior to all users.Wherever the kids are is where the predators are. Make no mistake. Before long, TikTok will experience some of the same predatory issues as Musical.ly now that it’s thrust itself into the American spotlight with this change. Just today, we heard a story about a young girl who posted a video of her lip syncing and within hours, she received a message from a man with his own video of him masturbating to her video (she didn’t have her privacy settings locked down).To prevent predatory access, please see the screen shots below for engaging some decent privacy settings. TEACH kids who use this app to NEVER share their QR Code (in the user’s profile) with strangers.Related post:Some parental controls exist.
These controls are similar to Musical.ly. In the user’s profile, click the 3 dots in the upper right corner.
Then select “Privacy Settings.” Then click “Privacy and Safety” where you see the options shown below. For young users, please toggle off “Allow Others to Find me” and toggle on “Private Account” at a minimum. For additional protection, limit interactions with comments, duets, and messages to “friends” or “off.” Under the digital well-being setting, you can limit app use to 2 hours per day and/or enable restricted use, which restricts videos not appropriate for all ages. Parents can also set a passcode so that kids can’t change these.Deleting the app. Maybe you decide that even with these parental controls that you want the app deleted. There are a few extra steps beyond just deleting it from your phone and this will actually delete the account. Manage My Account – Add phone number (if needed) – Thinking about removing your account? – Send Code – Enter number – Continue (two times) – Delete Account. Also remember that if your child is using an Apple device, that they will still have access to the app in the Cloud.
The most foolproof way to ensure that it is not downloaded again is to turn off the app store. Check out the section “What if an app was already downloaded” in the related post below for more tips!Related post:Hashtags are always a mess.
Eventually. Musical.ly found this out the hard way. We did some searches using some typical offenders like “twerk,” “nudez,” and others within TikTok. Most of the obvious, problematic hashtags didn’t turn up any results.Songs can have explicit lyrics. True, yes. Kids can create their own music videos using any of thousands of popular songs.
There’s no way to control this.There are in-app purchases – be careful! Musers can purchase coins (up to $99.99 worth of them!) and these are shared with other musers to encourage their creativity! If you’re an iPhone family, be sure to toggle off “In-app purchases” in the Restrictions (or Screen Time if you’re running the iOS 12 beta).Related post:You can link with other social platforms. In the muser’s profile, there’s a spot to add both an or account. This is significant, since once that link is made, TikTok gains access to a ton of information, including contacts.
Read the privacy concerns below.TikTok collects a TON of information about its users. Take a look at the types of information it collects from musers (per its ):. Information you give us. You give us information about you when you register for and/or use the Platform, including your name, age, gender, address, email address, social media login details, telephone number and financial and credit card information and your photograph as well as your language selection.
Information you choose to share from your social networks.If you choose to link your social network or public forum account (e.g.