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Parents are suspicious of TikTok the most among kids’ social media use

A wrongful death lawsuit in California says TikTok’s algorithm promotes dangerous ‘challenges’ to young users – Copyright AFP Kazuhiro NOGI
Social media is an essential part of life. Whether it is a force for good or an altogether more complex feature of our lives is open to question and debate. Certainly, unchecked scrolling can have quite an effect on even the most mindful adults. With this in mind, do parents believe social media is safe for their children to use?
To discover which platforms parents’ find unsafest, the website All About Cookies surveyed 1,000 parents and asked them to weigh in on how they believe their kids are being affected by social media.
The survey conducted relates to the view of parents who a residing in the U.S.
Coming in top place for concern was TikTok. Here, over half of parents said that they considered the short video presentation site TikTok is the most unsafe social media platform. In contrast to this finding, YouTube was considered the safest
Such is the concern about TikTok, its stands that 33 percent of parents believe TikTok should be banned entirely due to privacy concerns. This is a very sizeable proportion and this will reflect a divide between the views and expectations of parents and of their children. Such a view may well push more young people to use the service if they think their parents do not approve of it.
Further with TikTok, over 1 in 3 people surveyed believe lawmakers should step in and create new privacy laws specifically for TikTok. This is not quite the same as seeking to ban the service, but is represents a large proportion of which to restrict the operation of the site in terms of its relative freedom to operate.
Many security professionals have found security vulnerabilities in the TikTok app. They range from hackers using SMS messages to gain unauthorized access to accounts, through to issues surrounding the use of HTTP and HTTPS when delivering videos.
In terms of general parental concerns, a minority are sufficiently concerned to seek to supervise what their children are doing online. The survey found that 23 percent of parents of guardians check their child’s Internet activity at least once a day.
Apparently, 30 percent of adults with children do not allow their child on social media at all. This is a surprisingly larger proportion of people. However, the survey authors indicates that stratified “across age and gender to create a nationally representative sample.”
The proportion who are seeking to ban social media use exists despite such as the Kids Online Safety Act being passed. It would seem that the views of some parents as to the effectiveness of this type of legislation is very low.
The Act will require all online platforms, including social media platforms, to provide parents with “easy-to-use” tools to protect their children younger than 16 from harmful images, sexual exploitation, bullying, and product recommendations. These measures are not considered strong enough by a large proportion of parents surveyed.
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How to Train ChatGPT to Write in Your Brand’s Tone of Voice [Infographic]
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Are you looking for ways to improve your ChatGPT output? Want to train it to write in a more unique tone of voice, in order to better suit your branding?
The Creative Marketer shares his ChatGPT prompt tips in this infographic. To enact these, add “Write like [INSERT CHARACTER]” at the start of your ChatGPT instructions.
TCM breaks things down into the following categories:
- Innocent
- Sage
- Explorer
- Ruler
- Creator
- Caregiver
- Lover
- Hero
- Everyman
- Magician
- Jester
- Outlaw
Check out the infographic for more information.
A version of this post was first published on the Red Website Design blog.
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Elon Musk reinstates far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on X

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been reinstated on X, formerly known as Twitter, by company owner Elon Musk – Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Joe Buglewicz
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, on Sunday reinstated far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the social media platform, a year after vowing never to let him return.
Jones, who claimed that a December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that killed 20 children and six educators was a hoax, was banned from the platform — then still known as Twitter — in 2018 for violating its “abusive behavior policy.”
He was also sued by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting and ordered by a judge in the case to pay up more than a billion dollars in damages last year.
Musk had himself promised never to let the Infowars host back on the social media platform, which he bought last year for $44 billion.
But following a poll Musk conducted on X asking whether Jones should be reinstated, to which some two million users responded, he flipped that decision.
“I vehemently disagree with what he said about Sandy Hook, but are we a platform that believes in freedom of speech or are we not?” the SpaceX founder said on X.
But Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action group which pushes for tighter gun laws, said that “defamation is not free speech.”
Musk’s decision comes the same week that the Sandy Hook families commemorate the 11th anniversary of the December 14 shooting, which Jones alleged was staged to allow the government to crack down on gun rights.
Jones’ followers harassed the bereaved families for years, accusing parents of murdered children of being “crisis actors” whose children had never existed.
It also came a week after Musk had responded to advertisers pulling out of X because of far-right posts and hate speech, including an apparent endorsement by Musk himself of an anti-Semitic tweet.
Asked whether he would respond to the advertising exodus, Musk said in an interview with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin that the advertisers could “go f*** yourself.”
Jones, who has a million followers on X, returned to the site with his first post re-tweeting Andrew Tate, the controversial former kickboxer facing rape and human trafficking charges in Romania, in which he hailed Jones’ “triumphant return”
US media reported that as of Sunday, the account of Jones’ controversial show Infowars was still banned.
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Instagram Launches New ‘Close Friends Only’ Podcast to Showcase Celebrity Users

Not sure if this will be a valuable addition, or another stream that’ll fade out pretty quick, as Meta stops paying attention to it.
Today, Instagram has launched a new podcast called “Close Friends Only”, which it says will present “the latest on culture – from memes and icks, to fashion and friendship – all from your favorite celebrities.”
And they’ve gone big out of the gate, with the first episode featuring Ice Spice in conversation with Doja Cat.
The conversation sees the two stars discuss their favorite memes, their favorite animals, celebrity crushes, experiences in flirting on IG, their juiciest DMs, and more.
Which will no doubt get a heap of attention, and will help make Instagram a bigger focus for youngsters seeking to replicate their idols. But in terms of practical advice or tips, yeah, there might not be a heap there.
But it could be worth tuning in anyway, in order to get the lowdown on the latest trends, from some of the people that are leading the way on cultural shifts.
But then again, as noted, it’ll be interesting to see how IG follows this first episode up, and whether they keep running regular episodes of the podcast with more celebrities.
Either way, it’s an interesting promotional vehicle for IG, especially given that it’s focusing on musicians, as TikTok becomes an even more critical platform for music promotion.
Maybe, then, this will be Instagram’s counter to that, but again, we’ll have to wait and see whether more episodes arrive.
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