A PARENT'S GUIDE to
TIK TOK WRITTEN BY SEAN BAUMEISTER
As the Coronavirus continues to ravage the world and quarantine continues to be our reality many people have turned to social media applications to socially connect with others. One such app is Tik Tok which has taken the nation by storm in recent months, and if you are a parent of a teenager you have likely known about it for quite some time, yet can’t figure out the attraction. 60 | SARATOGA FAMILY | SPRING 2021
Founded by Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of chinabased company Bytedance, Tik Tok was created by Zhang in 2014 and released to the international market in 2017. Since then, Tik Tok has been exploding in popularity with over 800 million active users and 2 billion downloads on the app store and the google play store.
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