The head of operations of TikTok in India is confident that the fast-growing app will be able to increase its user base by as much as 50% this year, as it plans to work on monetizing the platform and come back from a pretty contentious year last year where it was banned from India completely.
There’s a new trend on TikTok called the ‘Skull-Breaker’ trend, and it’s as scary as it sounds. It’s so scary, in fact, that it has doctors worried about the potentially deadly consequences of being involved in a challenge like this.
TikTok, the popular social media sharing platform, has taken down an Australian profile that allegedly hunts down pedophiles. It lures them into meeting up with the user, which turns into a confrontation that is caught on camera. The NSW police are urging people not to become vigilantes and take the law into their own hands.
Facebook is suing One Audience, a data analytics company that allegedly developed a malicious SDK, or software development kit and then paid app developers to include it in their apps.
The World Health Organization has just joined TikTok, in an attempt to share accurate information about the coronavirus to people who use the app. This is a timely decision, as more and more people start to panic about the potentiality of a global pandemic.
A 13-year-old boy has been taunted and bullied for his book reviews on Instagram, and top authors have come to his defense. Callum Manning from South Shields, started an Instagram account just last week to share his thoughts on some of his favorite books.
TikTok has finally responded to and taken action against a new viral challenge, called the ‘skull-breaker’ challenge, by banning it. The stunt involves two people tricking a third into learning a TikTok dance.
Best friends Beth McDaniel and Ellen Watson recently posted a video of themselves getting ready to go out for the night, and they had no idea that they were about to go viral. The video of them getting glammed up received upwards of 500k views overnight, and it’s not because of what they were wearing or their before and after glam shots.
Facebook is planning on making its messenger app even simpler, by getting rid of the Discover tab. This change was tentatively announced last year in August, but the actual switch-over will only start happening at the beginning of next week.
This guide is intended to help parents understand the impacts of social media on their children’s mental health. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that social media is more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes, which shows that it poses a risk to children who are on it and use it on a daily basis.