Watching TikTok on an everyday basis can affect teens’ mental health, which can lead to depression and even self-harm. Through a recent testing, researchers found that the algorithm on TikTok is overbearing teenagers with self-harm videos, eating disorders, and suicide videos on their page “made for them.” Charles Hymas has written a short article on how “TikTok exposes children to suicide content within three minutes of joining app; Research by Centre for Countering Digital Hate finds social media platform bombards teenagers with self-harm content via its 'For You' feed.” By writing this article, has brought attention to the audience that has been affected by the harmful content posted on Tik Just like every other teenager, Molly Russel was scrolling on what …show more content…
She did exactly what the app wanted her to do, follow the “trends”. Following the “popular” activities cost a young girl her life. TikTok is a well-known app all across the world. Many use it daily and can spend hours at a time on it. While most of the audience is teenagers and younger, their brains are not fully developed and they do not know all the consequences of their actions. Vanessa Leikvoll has written “Here’s How TikTok Is Affecting Your Mental Health” to educate society on how an app they love can cause problems to their mental health. Being on your phone for hours a day is a very common habit among teenagers because we have always grown up with it to solve our problems. In this case, it is causing more problems than we believe we can easily solve, “Unfortunately, studies have found that spending a lot of time on social media can have profoundly negative effects on mental health.in fact, according to Mental Health America, nearly 50 million Americans are struggling with mental illness, and 2.7 million of those are youth aged 12–17” (Leikvoll). While finding videos that bring joy causes dopamine to travel to the