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What Parents Should Know About The Tik Tok App

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What Parents Should Know About The Tik Tok App

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For the parent who have teen children at home will agree with me that the word Musical.ly is no longer strange to them as their children might also be one way or the other obsess with it like every other teen kid out there. The lip syncing video app which is very familiar with Vine have taken over and is known as one of the world largest social app with over 300 million monthly active users. It has become a trend everywhere, no wonder almost all the kids are now obsess with it.

The app creates a means for people to create and share musical videos where they send lip sync songs, they can upload short video of them doing this and also they have given thousands people the opportunity to also be a video creator. The platform is one of the few social media that has parental control.

Aside all these facts there are some other things you need to know about Musical.ly which you might not be aware of:

What's parent need to know about Tik Tok?

The app Tik Tok is accessible to the world in no excluding of tribe or age, it is one of the mature content that is available for streaming but as a parent there is a good news for you, Tik tok has a privacy setting, and as a user you can also decide who you want to see you.

The app is rated 12+ and there is also a system in place which will help verify the user age so anyone can't just download the app because of the access to inappropriate content and the use of popular music which may contain explicit language. The good news is that parent can use parental control setting on their children devices to prevent them from downloading the app.

What are the benefits of Tik Tok and Musical.ly?

There is numerous reason why the Musical.ly is one of the best there is, one of the great aspect of the Tik Tok app is the "Digital Wellbeing" setting, it is also a screen time management mode that holds users to a two hours' limit on the app per day when turn on and there is a pass code which is required to continue using the app past the time limit. Parent can use the opportunity of pass code to set limitation around excessive screen time.

Tik Tok is also a place to learn and as well teacher can step in and make this opportunity to teach and they can use it as a tool in the classroom for an assignment. Challenges can also be created to illustrate a concept or lesson and it can also serve as materials for student.

Aside all these facts the The Tik Tok app has been a life changing for people, a lot of people have been able to acquire fame on the app, we have seen people like Bryce Hall made great recognition on the app and he also spoke about how this app has been a life changing for him and so many others.

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