Digital youth protection
TIKTOK: Parents can set up your children break
Tikkok is particularly popular with children and young people. However, there is a suspicion in the room that the minors are driven into an addiction. The video app is now responding to the allegations.
Tikkok grants parents and legal guardians additional ways to individually restrict the use of the video app by their children. The adults can interrupt the use of Tikok at fixed times. The new feature with the name “Teasure” presupposes that the participants have agreed that the child’s app use of the child was regulated by the “accompanied mode” that TikTok introduced the youth protection function five years ago.
“Accompanied mode” must be activated
To do this, the adults also have to install Tiktok on their smartphone. In order to activate the accompanied mode, you can call up in the settings “Digital Wellbeing/Privatpär” and “Settings/Accompanied Mode”. Then a QR code is displayed that the child has to scan with his smartphone. This is how the apps are connected and the child agrees with the regulation of use.
So far, you could only set a maximum usage time of 40, 60, 90 or 120 minutes per day. With the new feature “time out”, families can flexibly determine when their teenagers should take breaks. For example, parents could determine that their teens can only spend 30 minutes on TikKok during the week, but a little longer on the weekend.
“If necessary, parents and legal guardians can also create a recurring schedule that is tailored to family life,” says a blog entry from Tiktok. The children and adolescents can ask their parents in the app for permission to adapt the schedule and to temporarily lift the time out. “Such a step always requires the consent of the parents.”
The new youth protection measures from Tikkok should also prevent children and adolescents from being online to watch TikK videos. To do this, a new sleep aid called “Wind Down” at 10 p.m. takes on the entire screen and encourages the teenagers to complete the evening and draw their attention to sleep.
Studies have shown that this new meditation function helps young people to develop a balanced digital usage behavior in the long term.
Tikok sets a hard border among younger users between the ages of 13 and 15. You are not allowed to send messages at night. Tikok also stops the delivery of push notifications after 9 p.m.
The new youth protection rules apply from Tuesday and are gradually rolled out on the net.
In the past, Tikkok has been criticized again and again because of its effect on children and adolescents. The European Commission opened a procedure against the online platform in February 2024. It should be checked whether the online giant is doing enough of the distribution of illegal content and, for example, violates the protection of minors and in advertising transparency.
dpa
Source: Stern
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