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Plus: having the TikTok conversation with the kids, and striking the balance between responsibility and expression

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WE'RE having the TikTok conversation in our house. Our eight-year-old’s best buddy has a TikTok account, where he posts videos of his latest dances. She wants to look at them and I can’t blame her – he’s a very funny guy and I wouldn’t mind seeing them myself. But TikTok seems like a social media channel too far. I do a bit of Twitter, Instagram and Facebook myself, I have an inkling how they operate, but TikTok feels like it was designed to keep the adults out. 

My wife opened it on her phone yesterday and said there was something off about the way it popped up a video of young teenagers dancing in mini-skirts. That said, we can’t keep our daughter off it forever.