TikTok.. Surveying the Strangest of Wonders

The strange and the wondrous keep growing on social media platforms, all patterns gathered in TikTok in images and videos that vary very strangely. The lowest of content you will find in the deepest images of indecency and breach of norms, even basic etiquette is missing from them, dances, slip-ups, and affectation even in ordinary speech, shaking off all respect and human regard. This does not mean that TikTok is devoid of useful and beneficial accounts, indeed they are many as well, but it is necessary to draw attention to the dangers of bad content and the extent of its negative impact on generations, culture, and beliefs.

Brazen Videos

Laughter, happiness, and merriment are a natural demand and a right of the human being, even of the animal, but everything has rules and controls that humans must follow, otherwise chaos creates many ailments and corrupts and fixes nothing. Wretched pranks, dressing that is no dressing, foul words, wounding of companions, dangers, and many crooked ways to gain view counts or money, even profiting from filming the sick, the sleeping, and people of determination. The silliness reached the point of acting out idiotic movements and emitting annoying sounds for long periods on microphone devices.

Fantastical View Counts and "the Bot"

Users are surprised by the large numbers of views, and we do not deny that there is a large number of the app's users worldwide, but there is a huge number of bot systems of automated robots that perform random watching, liking, sharing, and even replying and encouraging. This is clear to whoever tracks the posts; one may notice that some accounts have no human origin!

Unmonitored Live Streaming

You are amazed at what you may see in the live streaming of many local and global accounts as well: blatant harassment of people through calls, some of them deliberately hitting themselves, another presenting himself as if bewitched throughout the live stream, and some defrauding by presenting people as if they are refugees searching for a provider and funding, and there are competitions among the participants among the followers of all the competitors to gain money directly, and some give explanations and teach people wonderful things like drawing, sculpting, and engineering, and another, who is ill, films his daily life live from the hospital. Things that turn one's hair gray.

Paying Attention to Home Privacy

Among the important matters is for parents to be cautious of live streaming, for any person who is a stranger to the home may do a live stream, and likewise children without the parents' knowledge, transmitting the home's daily life and its secrets in public.

TikTok remains like other global systems that have invaded homes and rooms, and the programs and apps will increase, and it is upon us to fortify our sons, daughters, and the coming generations to hold fast to the manners, norms, and sound, moderate beliefs that our morals, religion, and leadership call for.

Al-Roeya Newspaper, 31 January 2022

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