What is Tik Tok?

Tik Tok (formerly known as musical.ly) is a social media platform for creating, sharing and discovering short music videos, think Karaoke for the digital age and allows users to create videos recorded in 15 seconds or less and share them across a community. Are There Any Age Restrictions? TikTok has a minimum user age of 13 years-old. How to Create an Account? Users, or formerly known as ?musers?, can either sign up using their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or email account. Why Do Teens Like it? Tik Tok is a fun app that allows teens to create and share videos with their friends. Teens also enjoy competing in the different challenges which can be entered via the trending hashtags on the app. The app has a very dedicated, young community of users. For many of these users, gaining likes, followers and getting their videos featured on the app are important priorities. Creating and sharing their own content is now a big part of how teens spend their time online. Teens are moving away from being spectators online to becoming content creators. This app can be a really creative way, fun way for teens to express themselves and create their own social content. How Does it Work? Like most other apps and social networks, users can follow other users, like and comment on other users? videos. Teens can send emoji?s to their favourite singer on Tik Tok. Users can select the song they wish to use in their video first, then record themselves miming along to the music. Alternatively, users can record their video first and then select a song. The app has lots of ways to add more fun to user?s videos, for example, there are options to shoot in slow-mo, time lapse, fast forward, filters, effects or even play the song backward etc. Once users are happy with their video, they can post it to their followers and share it on other social networks for example; Messenger, WhatsApp etc.