Viktorija Zolotarska

Riga, A.M. Keldisa street 2

April 20, 2022

T-Ray

Riga, Ūdeļu street 22a

Dear T-Ray,

I am writing to explain my opinion about the influence of TikTok and other

social media on teenagers.

Social networks have become a part of everyday life, it is hard to imagine it

now without them. Even now, when I finish, I will send you this work through
"e-class", which can also be considered a social network. However, we will
not talk about networks whose main function is to exchange messages, but
about those social networks where people exchange content.

What is Tik-Tok anyway?

Tik-Tok is qualitatively different from its predecessors in the following

parameters: easy entry, viral content, ease of creating personal content, the
presence of its own influencers.

And also Tik-Tok, like its predecessors: YouTube, Instagram, etc. shows you
what interests you. Each user will have their own feed: "For you". And only
the influence of the social network will depend on this.

In my case, I can say that Tik-Tok motivates me more than anything else. A
lot of videos about how people cope with their problems, how they go
through themselves. Help figure out what's going on with you. Also new
knowledge. Authors in Tik-Tok share their knowledge, most often I leave with
new theoretical knowledge about makeup, hair, crafts and even English. I
will not lie and say that I do not see memes there. Memes, like social
networks, have become part of our lives. However, they do not interfere with
gaining useful knowledge.
However, I know people whose feed consists only of memes. I don't think
these people endure anything good for themselves after using TikTok. But
that's their problem.

Finally, I want to generalize everything by the fact that TikTok adapts to the
interests of the person himself and his influence is directly related to them.