Tikked off: An app that’s easy to hate


While there are mostly mindless and harmless videos on TikTok, there’s plenty more dangerous ones that are mimicked by kids who haven’t yet mastered self-control, wariness or common sense. — Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash

We geezers love to hate new social media, and TikTok, where kids post short videos of themselves, is the latest thing to despise.

When I say geezers in relation to new social media trends I mean any of us over age 35. That’s the age when the hatred factor for TikTok rises dramatically, according to surveys done by PCMag.

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