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Tiktok users were unnerved when the news on the banning of the popular app circulated on social media. It happened when the Tiktok application, owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company, underwent a great deal of scrutiny due to its provocative content and privacy issues.

However, our government finds no reason to shut down Tiktok despite moves by other countries. Filipinos can still enjoy using it.

As a tiktokerist myself, I support our government’s decision not to ban this app because of the huge entertainment factor it offers. It gives me a new view of the world through the eyes of new people. Just like any other app, it offers me great potential for meeting new friends and even creating new connections. In school, I use it whenever I am bored, if not stressed, with an elephant of academic tasks. Tiktok hones both my creativity skills and sense of expressiveness.

Moreover, teachers find this app helpful since it helps them engage their learners in deeper and more meaningful learning approaches. They have made Tiktok a great learning tool for engaging class discussions.

Tiktok app can arouse everyone’s interest because of its superiority. Many were addicted with this app due to its amazing features where we can create, edit, share, discover, and watch short videos—from just a few seconds long all the way up to ten minutes. Not just that, but we can also customize videos with filters and stickers. Tiktok has what it takes for us to live with its existence.

Obviously, its power doesn’t just revolve around entertainment. It is so powerful that it opens the door to more opportunities for earning money and becoming well known.

Here in Sirawai, Ann Princess Codoy, known as Cody, is earning from Tiktok for having three million followers on the platform. According to her, she never expected that her love of dancing would pave the way to her popularity in the Tiktok world.

We, the members of the publication, did a tour on our campus to check if the students are still not practicing the proper segregation of garbage, and we found out that there are still students who are hardheaded to follow. Anywhere we go

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SirNaHigh teachers who use Tiktok as educational tool " in each school building, trashes are visible. Our attitude is an upsetting addition to the embarrassing dilemma our country faces regarding debris.

Nevertheless, there is still time to contribute our little ways to help our country rise from this problem. Adopting a drastic change plays a pivotal role since waste is a function of the population. We must apply the reduction of consumption because the more we consume, the more waste and trash we produce. We must cut back on everything we use.

Our school must strictly continue the adoption of DepEd Memorandum No. 01 Series of 2015, known as Zero Waste Month, where every school could participate in a clean-up drive activity. We, as students, must also seriously take part in this event, for we are not ourselves affected but our families. We should restart recalibrating our ways of throwing our waste properly and be models worth emulating. After all, we are not only saving the country but our mother earth as well.

SURVEY GATHERED BY JAY-RALD YAGUE AND ASBALI ASOL Image taken from google.com

MARGARRETTE ANN GAPO G12 SciTech Writer