Last week President Biden signed the bill that gives TikTok’s parent company ByteDance nine months to sell the social media app or be banned in the U.S. And according to a new survey, 42% of Americans support the move, while only 23% are against it and 31% have no real opinion on the ban.
The poll of 2-thousand U.S. adults also finds:
- While 42% of Gen Z and 35% of millennials say they regularly use TikTok, 36% of Gen Z and 40% of millennials still support the ban.
- Only a quarter (25%) of all respondents say they’d be affected by the ban and 45% say it won’t impact them at all.
- More than half (58%) of those polled report that they don’t use TikTok at all.
- Among parents, 47% share concerns over their kids using the app, with 21% admitting they’re “very” worried about their child using TikTok.
- Parents’ biggest concerns about the app are their child seeing inappropriate or disturbing content (58%), them becoming too obsessed with it (51%), concerns over data privacy (44%) and fears about cyberbullying (43%).
- Some parents are also worried about what their kids are posting and sharing on TikTok (39%), who they’re meeting and engaging with on the app (38%) and it shortening their attention spans (29%).
- Only 20% of parents say they’re not at all concerned about their child using TikTok.
Source: Talker
Talk Back:
- But if they ban TikTok, what will everyone do when they’re procrastinating going to sleep? Oh yeah. Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, WeChat and Telegram.
- I sometimes watch TikTok but not often. Guess I am too old.
- I actually watch Facebook Reels a lot.