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Currently, it is estimated that just over 60 percent of the world’s population is online.
Within the current context, digital platforms have become the great trend of use, due to the forced social distancing. It is within these platforms that people carry out a greater number of tasks, such as working, studying, obtaining entertainment and socializing, aspects that promote a digital life; however, the growing number of Internet users are also at constant risk, whether due to cyber attacks, digital fraud, physical risks due to the induction of trends risky viral, or a vulnerability to exposure of sensitive content, then now TikTok modifies its algorithm for minors, with which it seeks to prevent them from interacting and becoming victims of any conflict.
Within the current digital life, it is estimated that there are just over 4 thousand 950 million users, according to what was indicated by We are Social in its report “DIGITAL REPORT 2022”, a figure that represents just over 60 percent of the world’s population; It should be noted that just over 90 percent of people who use the Internet are young people between 12 and 17 years old, while 87.1 percent are users between 25 and 34 years old and only 37 percent of consumption is occupied by people older than 55 years.
This reveals the growing number of minors who are active within the platforms, being chinese social network TikTok one of the favorites for younger Internet users, since the platform currently has a user base of more than one billion monthly, compared to 700 million monthly active users.
TikTok modifies its algorithm; seeks to prevent minors from interacting
The platform of Chinese origin has recently made a series of modifications with the intention of preventing minors from interacting within its platforms, this cwith the intention of protecting them.
“We are deeply committed to the safety of minors on our platform. TikTok considers anyone under the age of 18 to be a minor. We do not allow activities that perpetuate the abuse, harm, endangerment or exploitation of minors on TikTok.” TikTok points out.
In past weeks, the platform TikTok started to classify videos according to age ranges and will now add a “mature content” tag to publications that may not be reproduced in the accounts of users under the age of 19; Likewise, two new functions were announced in the last few hours, with the aim that minors who browse its platform are in a space on-line even more secure, so they will seek to prevent them from having access to inappropriate content. Restriction of hashtags, words and age blocking are the new reality of TikTok.
some words or hashtags they will be on a kind of “blacklist”, that is, videos that have these prohibited labels will be blocked, so they will not appear on the user’s home screen.
Within an increasingly digital reality, platforms and developers have begun to give more importance to the content and topics that minors access, since they are vulnerable and susceptible to content considered susceptible or inappropriate.
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