Teens make up a huge proportion of TikTok users, and soon the app will automatically limit their daily screen time to 60 minutes, on top rolling out several other parental controls.
is perhaps the biggest time sink, making it all too easy for us to spend hours doomscrolling on the app. That’s bad enough for us adults with a job, but it can be downright dangerous for teens.
This restriction, which was done after consulting current academic research and experts from the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, forces these users to enter a passcode to continue watching, requiring them to make an active decision to extend that time. It will be rolled out in the coming weeks.
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