Has TikTok become a dangerous social media?

[Vesuvius87]

All of the sudden several teens have been getting severely burned doing the stupid fire challenge on TikTok videos.

Instead of promoting educational material and actual things you can cultivate your brain with, they're doing dangerous challenges. Common sense tells me that just the words ''fire challenge'' means anything can go wrong playing with fire. It seems that this is the trend nowadays. There wasn't any of those dangerous challenges in my time. I never once heard of the fire challenge when I was a teen. Some time ago, I've read about a girl pouring hot water on her sleeping friend as a ''prank''; also influenced by social medias. It seems pranks have gone too far too.

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/nation-world/12-year-old-boy-battles-life-threatening-burns-after-tiktok-fire-challenge-goes-horribly-wrong-tuscon-arizona-hospital-ambulance-therapy-skin-grafts-surgeries

https://abcnews.go.com/US/13-year-girl-severely-burned-imitating-tiktok-video/story?id=77980454

I have a 3 month-old baby boy and I plan on eduating him (when he gets older) on not doing any stupid challenges/dares that can cause permanent damages.

[Chazmatazz269]

Stoopid people are always finding new ways to demonstrate their woeful ignorance to themselves and the world. Don’t blame social media.
Also, never protect idiots from themselves. We already have too many as it is. We’re long overdue to let natural selection take its course. Clean up the gene pool a little bit for a few generations.

[Vesuvius87]

Maybe the social media is directly at fault 100% but it has made things worse than before.

[Chazmatazz269]

In the sense that the moron down the block can inspire morons all around the world instead of just in their little corner of it, you have a point. But i don’t think that’s worse. I wasn’t joking about natural selection. Now one bad idea can take out dozens of useless idiots instead of just a couple. All we have to do is stop wasting precious resources protecting idiots from themselves. Let the trash take itself out.

[NaultD]

Don't we go through this song and dance every few years? Like the tide pod challenge had zero blip on poison control or er traffic globally. Yes fire is dangerous and we've had stop drop and roll drills.

If anything children are safer then ever by never leaving the house. That's some deep mental issues but not emergency room issues.

[DJB72]

Why are kids that young on Tiktok anyway?

My son (7) asked me about Tiktok because he'd seen it and HE thought it was "too stupid" and asked me to delete the app 🤣🤣🤣

[Vesuvius87]

I'm glad your son has common sense and is smart. Exactly, there is no need for that app to even be there.

[DJB72]

I'm relieved. I'm also concerned about the latest advances in tech in general. Short term dopamine hits are addictive and it's only time before he gets dragged into coding and stuff that doesn't actually feed you, just accumulates money in a world that doesn't seem to grasp the basics fact that without farmers we're all going to get hungry fast.

[Anonymous]

It always has been by design to thin out the population and allow the Chinese access to data

[Anonymous]

It's like the sniffing challenge before tiktok. Kids will be kids. Raise them better.