As with other popular social media networks, you need to be careful what you put in your TikTok profile, the various privacy settings, who you allow to see your posts and what you choose to post.
Family Safety Mode
TikTok has a Family Safety Mode to let a parent link their TikTok account to their child’s. Once connected, parents can use the Digital Wellbeing features, which include:
- Screen Time Management: how long their child can spend on TikTok each day.
- Direct Messages:who can send message to their child’s account or turn off direct messages completely.
- Restricted Mode:restrict types of content that isn’t appropriate for a child.
TikTok Security Tips for Families with Children
- Set Your Child’s Account to Private: On the discoverability page of your child’s TikTok account, set the page to private. This means that people the child doesn’t know won’t be able to read the posts
- Set Time Limits: This is part of the “Digital Wellbeing” feature and lets you restrict the total time spent on the APP
- Set Restricted Mode: This will block any adult content and should have a password set to avoid anyone but you undoing it.
- Set up Family Pairing: This links all of your family’s accounts so you can see the content and communications with your child.
- Report Bad Behaviour: Teach your child how to report a user who does something inappropriate or anything considered bullying on TikTok.
If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.
