By: A’yuni Sabila Khusna

In this era, all
people worldwide need social media for their daily activities to start from
social, educational, and economic activities. Then later, the Tiktok
application became very popular with people worldwide, starting with small
children, teenagers, and even adults. Many of them have Tiktok accounts on all
of their smartphones. The TikTok application is an audio-visual media, and this media is an application that can be seen or heard by people (Valiana,
2020). Many artists and influencers prefer
to use Tiktok over Instagram
or YouTube for marketing their products
or work. This TikTok application has its benefits for certain people, such as
honing creativity in making short videos. Still, the presence of the Tiktok
application makes the child’s character disturbed, that is, with behavior and
attitudes that are not by the expected character education (Valiana, 2020).
The TikTok application’s security is very lacking because
a badly banned
system makes this application easily give harmful content (Deriyanto,
2018). However, the TikTok application has more negative impacts, especially
for young children and adolescents.

From the author’s observations, the author sees many young children and even adolescents who follow the trending or
challenges in Tiktok. As we know, they have not been able to think clearly what
impact they will get from just following the trend and challenges in TikTok.
Teenagers also often spread the news from the TikTok application, which is
considered a hoax because they can still filter information properly and
distinguish which content suits them. They only get data from one side, and are
also the validity of the data from the news is unclear. They imitate the
movements and styles in the Tiktok application, which the moves they do are not
suitable for children of their age and are accompanied by the music or songs
they sing. In this case, the author wants to discuss the
negative impacts of the Tiktok application on many sides, which one did not
discuss yet by the previous researchers.

The impact
of the TikTok application itself
tends to be negative impacts
rather than positive impacts when applied in daily
activities. From the statements of the two sources that I took, they explained that the Tiktok application had a bad effect on teenagers’ character
and the application’s security, which was still not maintained. Here
the author wants to add some shortcomings from the two sources that have been
taken. The specific goals and aims of the author here are that teenagers or
people who use the Tiktok application can limit themselves so that they are not
affected by the Tiktok application. The author also wants to remind parents
more especially so that
they are more supervising, attentive, and guiding their children when their
children are familiar with social media. The final goal is to prevent
many victims, whether
they are teenagers
or people who frequently use
the Tiktok application, not to become addicted to using the Tiktok application for a long time.

From the
statements about the tendency of negative impacts that several sources have
presented, the negative impact of the Tiktok
application leads to the daily and safety side of people
who use the Tiktok application. Here the author wants to show the negative
impact of using the Tiktok application that the community has operated. Tiktok
application has a terrible impact on society in terms of psychology, economics,
and culture. In terms of psychology, it will have a significant impact
on the mental health of the community. Besides that, it will also make teenagers addicted, and especially
teenagers are a golden period to form the best character. Then from the
economic side, people become wasteful in finance because they must have a large
internet quota to play the Tiktok application on a smartphone. Furthermore,
from a social side, they will be disturbed by the fact that they
are close to the features
contained in the TikTok application, which will continue to update as attractive as possible so that they do not care about the social
life around them.

We knew that from
a psychological perspective, TikTok has many negative effects. In the Tiktok
application, there is pornographic content that is not filtered on TikTok
application. It will be horrible if small children under age see it to affect
its psychology (Damayanti & Gemiharto, 2019). This condition will make
children curious, and then they will watch it again. Its users enjoying TikTok
social media make him feel lazy and forget about time. What they’re doing is
called social media addiction, which might influence one’s learning process
(Deriyanto, 2018). In addition, playing Tiktok often will not increase one’s
intelligence, especially now that most children nowadays follow the Tiktok
trend more so that they have bad characters that are not according to their
age. According to (Valiana, 2020) the negative effect of TikTok is more visible in the development of children’s
character. One of them is destroying children’s morals. So, for example, in terms of knowledge, knowing
that children are no longer
learning to seek knowledge,
they are busy playing with smartphones and making TikTok videos. Therefore, the
TikTok application is very destructive and has many negative effects on the
psychology of its users.

Tiktok application takes up a lot of economy from its users.
Many parents have complained
about their children who often ask for money to buy an internet data package,
which is used to play TikTok, not another helpful thing. (Damayanti &
Gemiharto, 2019; Dwi Chayani, 2020) It has proven that the TikTok application
makes students waste their money. Students can spend money to buy internet
packages only to go online and play the Tiktok application, and 4G-LTE support
is recommended for Tiktok app users. To get a good signal, users have to buy
expensive data packages. Many cases on the TikTok application show that many
users upload their wealth, such as work income, then the wealth in their home.
Referring to Angelista Putri Siman’s article, the Tiktok application makes users
compare their economic life in the general public, causing differences in
financial status in the community. For example, TikTok users with the usernames
@SiscaKohl and @DeniseChariesta always upload food or products that cost
millions of rupiah. On the other hand, a TikTok user with the username
@Endibawotongxyz often uploads content about his simple life and economy that
is not as rich as Sisca Kohl and Denise. We know that Tiktok is now like a platform
to upload things that should not show on social media, such as a

person’s
financial condition. Therefore, the Tiktok Application caused the users to take
a lot of economical to always exist there.

Most Tiktok
application users have a bad social. It has
been proven by (Dwi Chayani, 2020) that there is a lack of interaction with the
world. It harms children’s social
lives when they use social media (Tik Tok application) too often and for too
long. In addition, as have mentioned by (Kusumawardhani & Sari, 2021) that
TikTok, according to India and Indonesia, may have a detrimental impact on
people’s social lives in the world because it violates regional norms and
values. Especially in our country,
Indonesia, many Tiktok
artists are affected
by scandals. Whether they hate each other through online
wars on the Tiktok application and sometimes they are willing to do bad things to get social
attention then. Their Tiktok accounts will be famous. Many people will be
curious about the continuation of their case. According to (Deriyanto, 2018),
he has demonstrated unconscious application users of the benefits of social
media will act negatively to gain popularity because something harmful or
vulgar will get views and share faster. And then, the Tiktok application has a
negative effect on social life.

On this occasion,
the author will discuss the negative impact of the TikTok application from a
psychological point of view of people who use the application. In my own opinion, the Tiktok application
could make users addicted too much and also control their mind so that users
would feel lacking if they do not play the Tiktok application. Tiktok application users can even be
addicted to playing Tiktok for a full day without other valuable activities.
And as we know, many young children
play TikTok, so they forget
not to study as they are obliged
to do as students. They are more interested in following
trends and challenges in the Tiktok application than studying or doing their homework. According to (Valiana, 2020) the negative
effect of TikTok is more visible
in the development of children’s character. One of them is destroying
children’s morals. So, for example, in terms of knowledge, knowing that children
are no longer learning to seek knowledge, they are busy playing with
smartphones and making TikTok videos.

Another
negative impact of the TikTok application is Tiktok application takes up a lot
of economy from its users. Most social media
require an internet
package to operate
it, and not a few social media, including TikTok, need
a lot of internet quota to enjoy it. In our country, Indonesia, not all people
have Wi-Fi in their homes, maybe you can count whoever uses Wi-Fi, and most of
them are rich people. And people who do not have Wi-Fi can spend 1 gigabyte a
day to play TikTok applications, so it can be calculated that they can consume approximately 7 gigabytes in a
week. 4G-LTE support is recommended for Tiktok app users, and to get a
good signal, users have to buy expensive data packages (Damayanti & Gemiharto, 2019).
We can also find out that not all
regions in Indonesia have good networks like in cities, so users who have bad
networks will buy expensive internet data packages to get a smooth signal and
then play the Tiktok application.

From the
observations I have made, most people who are addicted to TikTok have bad
social conditions. The first is that they prefer to have many virtual friends
than real friends. They are competing, and some even buy followers to get many
followers on TikTok accounts rather than increasing relationships and hanging out with people
in the real world. Besides
that, they have

a
lousy personality, for example, they do not want to say hello when they meet
people in their environment, but they focus more on their gadgets and scroll
through Tiktok videos. They ignore their parents’ orders and prefer to create
Tiktok content without clear benefits. As has been explained by (Dwi Chayani,
2020) there is a lack of interaction with the world. It has a negative effect on children’s social lives when they use social media
(Tik Tok application) too often and for
too long.

And for the
last, Tiktok application users will experience problems with their health. The
first is that they think that the Tiktok application is a stress reliever
medium even though it is the opposite. Many teenagers experience bullying
because of the Tiktok application. Because people do not like the person’s
content, they give hate comments on their accounts. It makes the account get many hate comments and pushes them more
stressed and even depressed because of being bullied. Furthermore, the
frequency of playing and holding gadgets to make TikTok or just scrolling videos
in the TikTok application will make them get severe
illnesses in the long term. As
we know, even cellphones have very high radiation in all electronic devices,
and it will be dangerous for its users. If the duration is too long, it can
affect the eyes and brain. Several studies show that the effects of using
gadgets include impaired brain development of children, obesity, lack of sleep, mental disorders, and characteristics aggressive than radioactive (Anggraeni, 2019).

In brief, the
Tiktok application has negative effects on its users. Tiktok application could
make its users addicted and will affect the user’s psychology, so it would take
a lot of money to buy internet data for using the application. If users are
addicted to the Tiktok application, they would ignore social life and just have
fun in their virtual lives. What’s worse was playing TikTok often and then holding
gadgets for a long time would cause serious illness
for its users.
The author would like to suggest
that all parents
supervise their children
in playing social
media. As teenagers who are the future generations
of the nation, we must filter to use social media.

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