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Culture Post: TikTok Strengthens Parental Controls

TikTok, the highly popular social media platform, recently introduced new parental control features allowing parents to link their own TikTok account to their teens', where they are able to activate content and privacy features.

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TikTok, the highly popular social media platform, recently introduced new parental control features through “Family Pairing” which allows a parent to link their own TikTok account to their teen’s, where they are able to activate content and privacy features.

According to a blog post from TikTok, parents can now select from a suite of controls, including:
• Search, where parents can choose to search content on their teen’s account,
• Screen time, where parents can observe the amount of time their teen spends on TikTok,
• Restricted mode, where parents can restrict certain types of content from appearing on their teen’s account,
• Comments, where parents decide who can comment on their teen’s account,
• Discoverability, where parents can set their teens account to either private or public,
• Liked videos, where parents can determine whether others can see videos that their teen has liked,
• Direct messages, where parents can restrict or turn off the ability for others to send their teen a direct message.

Source: TikTok
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/supporting-youth-and-families-on-tiktok

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