{"id":54979,"date":"2020-11-26T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=54979"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:35:30","slug":"social-networks-why-do-teens-go-to-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/social-networks-why-do-teens-go-to-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Social networks: why do teens go to TikTok?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TikTok is the most downloaded application in the world, already with more than 1.6 billion downloads to its credit since the start of the year, according to the firm\u00a0<\/span>Sensor Tower<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0Present in 150 countries, it has around 150 million active daily users.\u00a0Before winning in Europe, it was very popular in Asia, especially China and Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n

With more than 2.5 million downloads in recent months in France, TikTok holds a major place today in the smartphones of French adolescents.\u00a0Specializing in music and dance, it allows them to film themselves singing in playback or performing a choreography.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the third most popular app among 12-16 year olds (69%), just behind\u00a0<\/span>Instagram<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(84%) and\u00a0<\/span>Snapchat<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(80%).\u00a0What are the springs of such membership?<\/span><\/p>\n

A taste for challenges<\/strong><\/h4>\n

First of all, we must see that the platform constantly offers all \u201cTikTokers\u201d to\u00a0<\/span>respond to challenges<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The latter arouse a very strong commitment among adolescents.<\/span><\/p>\n

The type of challenges that adolescents engage in differs by gender.\u00a0Boys are more attracted to those who invite them to reproduce dangerous actions on video, in particular the \u201cSkull Breaker Challenge\u201d, very dangerous, which is currently circulating (the principle of which is to make a double trip by surprise to a person who jumps in place, to broadcast the video on the network).<\/span><\/p>\n

For girls, the platform is rather the scene of the expression of an excessive narcissism where the cult of the body takes precedence.\u00a0For example, the \u201cprettierchallenge\u201d or \u201cthe challenge to become pretty\u201d challenge has become popular in the United States, prompting young girls to post videos of themselves in the hope of garnering the most likes and comments. positive about their physical appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why do adolescents today lend themselves so much to these games?\u00a0Does being a girl or a boy change the degree of involvement on the platform?\u00a0Remember that in adolescence, the challenges are understood as means of constructing one’s identity.\u00a0Adolescents seek to discover the world around them by exploring new experiences;\u00a0which generally leads to the unforeseeable and the uncontrollable, and therefore to the adoption of\u00a0<\/span>risky behaviors in the<\/span><\/a>\u00a0form of challenges.<\/span>
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