The Negative Effects of TikTok with guest Theresa Desuyo - Screen Time & Digital Family Expert with the Qustodio App

<h2> </h2><p>Smart Social Founder Josh Ochs caught up with <strong>Theresa Desuyo</strong>, the <strong>Screen Time & Digital Family Expert</strong> for the <a href="https://www.qustodio.com/" target="_blank">Qustodio app</a>. What is the Qustodio app? It's a parental control app. Their goal is to give visibility to parents with information about how their students are using games and apps on their devices. Currently two million families use the app, which allows families to see how much time they are spending on apps and games so they can set healthy limits for themselves and their students. The app also helps to filter out harmful content such as cyberbullying, explicit content, and predators.</p><p>Theresa talked with Josh about some of the negative effects of <a href="https://smartsocial.com/tiktok-app-guide-parents/" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and gave some tips on how to talk with your students about using TikTok and screen time as a whole.</p><p>Based on Qustodio usership, TikTok is one of the most popular apps for kids ages 4-18. It's at the top of the list followed by Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook. Theresa noted that TikTok is actually more popular among younger users, with interest falling away for older kids.</p><p>Theresa shared Qustodio's data for the average time spent in the TikTok app by age:</p><ul><li>4 to 6-year-olds spend 45 minutes per day in the app.</li><li>7 to 9-year-olds spend 60 minutes per day in the app.</li><li>10 to 12-year-olds spend 1 hour and 15 minutes per day in the app.</li><li>13 to 15-year-olds spend 65 minutes per day in the app.</li><li>16 to 18-year olds spend 57 min per day in the app.</li></ul><h2><strong>Negative Effects of TikTok</strong></h2><p><i>TikTok May Affect Attention Span</i></p><p>Each TikTok video is 15 seconds long, with the option of putting together many clips into a 60 second video. If on average a user is on TikTok for an hour per day, users will watch around 240 videos in that hour, depending on the length and amount of times a user wat