 This week, we're talking about social media and specifically TikTok. Of late, we've been having obscene lives and people think that TikTok should actually be brought down, which brings us to our first question. Do you think TikTok should be banned or should it just be regulated? Let me know what you think in the comment section. Hashtag Unfinished. I think one of our regulates, like they shouldn't ban it to most of the people because they use it and the best option is to regulate or ban it. Yes. I think it should be regulated. Because, number one, it's a source of income. Then, it's a source of entertainment, you know. So, I think it should be banned. And it depends on the environment. That those people use it wisely. But I can say, I think it should be banned. I think it should be regulated. Most people through TikTok don't have a job. They don't want it to be banned completely. If it's banned, it will limit others. Just maybe a few individuals don't want it to be misused. I definitely don't think it should be banned. Because I think TikTok is a really great marketing tool. There are so many businesses that make a lot of profit through TikTok. Plus, entertainment and exposure. We like to keep in touch with the rest of the world. I think it should be regulated. In that, it's a social media platform. And it's a platform that follows growth, overnight ban. And I think it should be banned. Anyway, I think it should be banned in TikTok. And I think it should be banned. So, I think it should be banned. What's the blame on the end of the day? If it's not positive, it's a negative side of the feed. I think it should be banned. But there's no aspect here. It's regulation. It should be regulated. To say, as a country, I think it should be banned in TikTok. So, I think it should be made something out of it. I think it should be made something out of it. I think it should be made something out of it. So, if TikTok is designed to be regulated, it should be banned. It should be banned. I think it should be banned. And it should be regulated. Obviously, we can't do that. We can't do that. Obviously, we can't do that. We can't do that on the internet. So, I think it should be banned and regulated. Plus, I think it should be made something out of it. I personally don't think it's a good idea for TikTok to be banned. The reason being, TikTok has really given so many youths employment. Like, the government, I think it should be banned. I think it should be banned concerning the youths. Personally, I have a cousin who lives in a house in Kongara, through TikTok. TikTok has really engaged so many people. Like, he minimized the usage of drugs. Because so many people use their money to buy drugs and invest in data. So, personally, I don't think it's a good thing for TikTok to be banned. Actually, it's really an advantage for so many youths out there when they want employment. Employment can be connected. Of which so many want connection. Even if they're connected now, they're not looking after you. So, having the TikTok platform, it's a good thing. And big up to the owner because it may create employment. TikTok should be regulated and rules should be there to guide the users. Reason being that TikTok came in with a ban. And the society took it, but they have not considered the disadvantages or the undoing into the society. As a psychologist, I believe morals are what guide families being the fiber that form the social cycle of the world. When families are interfered with by morals, especially if they're negative morals, then you're going to have a lot of problems in the world. TikTok, having come in with a ban, and unregulated, people, especially the young ones, are able to use it for their own bad intentions. To me, I am seeing a new phenomena in terms of just communicating issues, getting ownership of issues. They're not so calling out irresponsibility, especially on the part of government and people in the society that are not doing what is right. So, to me, it is a medium, a new platform of engagement and a new platform for communication. So, I have no problem with it. We live in the same as I. They should not try to touch TikTok because we don't ban, for example, in the same parliament we don't ban TikTok. That is wrong. Governments, institutions, not ban products that are not made by them. What you do, you make policies to control them. You make policies that are progressive, not subversive. So, there's no ban. There's no way to think about banning because we don't ban TikTok. It is technology. You cannot block technology from coming. It is like saying, we block the internet from using. That is wrong. I think it should be regulated. One cause, if you ban it, you cannot lose the source of money. Kind of my sister, I have the idea mostly for my parents and me. Even I don't know TikTok, not verified, but yeah, TikTok is a source of entertainment. So, no. So, no. Personally, I feel like TikTok should be regulated because as much as we have people who are actually using it for bad means, we have people who are using it in a very creative way. They're using it to encourage people who are down and some of them are actually using it to analyze. So, it's going to be very unfair if we decide to only look at the bad side of it. Which takes us to our next question. Do you think TikTok promotes violence? Let me know what you think in the comment section. Yes, I agree with that. They promote vulgar language, hate speech and violence to some point. But to some other people, it's assistive, it's helpful to some people, advertisements and stuff. Not really. Like, it depends on what. Maybe come on a beef, come on a credit violence, but I don't think come on a credit violence. No, TikTok, I see it provides a platform where they can express their freedom of speech. But I don't think it promotes. I think TikTok is like any other platform on the internet. Meaning, they have the capacity to do every single thing. People understand that different, so people can decide to do the craziest things on the internet on TikTok. So, I don't doubt they promote violence and hate speech. I feel like people should just get values and make TikTok feel less scary. I don't agree with that. Because we also have a parliament. How do they promote at times? No, TikTok is only a platform. Just like any other platform where people can give their views. There is what we call freedom of speech. So, give people their freedom. TikTok, I promote violence and hate speech. But now, the users do. So, I don't think TikTok is a platform where people can express their freedom. So, I don't think it's a platform where people can express their freedom. But now, the platform itself, it's regulated. It's a hate speech. I don't think it's a platform where people can express their freedom. It's a behavior. Violence is a result of copying aggressiveness. We are struggling with an age of gadgets or an age of social media. If it is not controlled, then violence is being copied. When children copy violence or when they watch, they are so much engrossed in social media. As you try to control, later on, they will fight. They will fight back. Fighting back is like a coping mechanism. Everyone has what we call defense mechanism. And one of the defense mechanism is to show violence so that you can be feared. Violence can be in form of revenge. In form of wanting to show the perpetrators that you can also equal their might. And therefore, I believe TikTok is promoting violence. I don't think so because looking from my experience, I have seen it as a platform for educating educating people on issues and if somebody has really misbehaved and you are called out then that's not hate speech. I haven't seen a innocent person being flagged in TikTok in what I understand is hate speech. I haven't seen. Anybody I have watched being called out has a questionable character. I agree. Any technology or product will have those bad and good elements. What you need to do is to deal with the bad ones and promote the good ones. Just that. Promote totally. TikTok is something I encourage you to do. If you don't like TikTok, you can't do it. Violence, there is no such thing as entertainment. There is no such thing as violence. I feel like this is not a TikTok issue. It's more about a personal kind of initiative because whatever you consume on TikTok is what is mostly found on your FIP page, mostly known as 4U page. So if you consume vulgar content you take part in violence and it's definitely going to appear on your timeline. I also feel like it's also about us being able to support good content and being against such vulgar content. Let's take a short break. We'll be back with two more questions. Welcome back guys. This is Unfinished Kamakawaida, the only place so we get to finish and finish matters. I am your host, SK Gitonga. Thank you for joining. Today we're talking about social media specifically about TikTok, which is also our next question. Do you think TikTok forces a threat to the mental health of the youth? Let me know what you think in the comments section. Yes and no. I dread in that like some people say when you are on TikTok some people start attacking you and you are attacked. So come when you are weak in your brain you feel offended and stuff. But some people don't care they don't know what to do they don't know what to do so it depends on the person. Not really. It's a tiny cause coming a threat then at first I'm a little up so I don't think I'm a threat. It depends on the way you use it. Some people say when I come to entertainment others say when I come to a job others maybe it depends when I come to entertainment but I don't think maybe to some people those who are maybe misusing it. One of the biggest advice police to give each other is if you are going to take care of your mental health regulate your mental health then regulate your feed. So I think like I said it has the capacity to but I think those are things that maybe young people should start being more aware of that they actually regulate their feeds because obviously if you tune into some kind of feeds it's going to mess with your mental health for sure. Some mental health in here is clearly a platform in entertainment platform. In fact, that's the best platform for someone suffering from mental health. Exactly. When you want to take care of your mental health it's a risk. It's not that you appear to make it out of a tick to come and take care of your health but I don't think I'm a threat. But some people say that it's not something you can do but some say that it's something you can't do. I'm just going to say it's not something that you can do. It's just not something you can do. So I think it's like if you're going to be in a college and you're going to have a lot of problems you need to get over that and that is going to be that thing. It's going to be like I don't have the real quality and the real quality. I am not good at designing cool things. So I have to get up and dry them up and I've already sent the QT to TikTok. If you don't like TikTok, go ahead and post to your friends. Send me the QT, I want you to post that on TikTok. If you don't like it, goes ahead and exposes it to TikTok. QT is now a cool thing. It's like you are not going to compete. in this situation we need to do that. We need to get up. We need to see that they are doing well. We need to learn to like. We need to see that they are doing well. So you see the students are making love, they are showing some interest. They are taking some care of their business, but they are not doing well. See that they are taking it the last time. The other side, as I understand it, TikTok and MyZoodz are the ones that keep you busy. My community is TikTok, My father used to tell me that there is no violence, there is no drugs, there is no money. No, I'm an addict of TikTok. Am I crazy? I'm not. Actually, it's a platform that's so genuine. You're earning concerning of... It's giving you what you deserve. If I was a young woman, I wouldn't be able to reach 500 subscribers on YouTube. But TikTok, if I was a woman, I wouldn't be able to reach 500 subscribers on viral. So, it's genuine. It's genuine. You should be able to reach 500. Various phenomena, e.g. anxiety. If a youth is excited and wants to watch a movie that is aggressive, then his mental health will be affected. He will go into anxiety. Depression. If he is restricted to watch because his colleagues or his peers are watching and he's restricted, he will definitely have anger, which are emotions, and he may go into stress and then later on depression. That is a negative part of mental health. TikTok will train people to abuse substance, to abuse alcohol. That will affect their mental health. It depends on the person who is watching or the content. If somebody is sharing their experience of having gone through depression and come out of it on TikTok, that is extremely helpful. If somebody is using it to shame, maybe a partner, somebody they have been intimate with and recorded and has thrown it on TikTok to shame him, that of course promotes depression and mental health issues. We have seen people even being driven to suicide. It is positive and negative. When the positive supersedes the negative, then you say that thing is positive. So it is promoting those mental challenges, but on the other side it is helping people to live those mental challenges so you can away. I don't feel like TikTok can be a space that's giving people a lot of peer pressure and you might end up creating content for other people and not for yourself anymore. Another thing is the negative comments can actually really get into you and mess with your mental health, especially when people are talking about how you look and body-shaming you. I just feel like it would be a good idea to support good content and be good to people, which takes us to our next question. Do you think TikTok is addictive? Let me know what you think in the comments section. Yeah, it is addictive. Myself, not from my younger age, it was addictive, but it squeezed me. I don't think it's addictive because most of the people there want to entertain. Meaning, they take most of their money, including their source of income, so they take their money. I don't think it's addictive. No. But it depends. Maybe to some users, since maybe they don't have anything to do, maybe they can be in TikTok all day. While others, they can use it maybe for job, maybe for creating awareness about what they are doing. So, according to me, it depends with the user. TikTok can actually be very time-consuming and addictive. I think that's what they create it for. The goal of whoever creates social media is for you to spend as much time on it as possible. So, I do spend. Personally, sometimes I use it for good. I'm like, research and things like that because I kind of work in social media, creating content. I have to be on top of it. Some trends, let me put it like that. So, sometimes I use it for good, like for research, just to know what's up, keep up with marketing and social media trends. But sometimes it's easy to escape my life. So, I'll scroll down TikTok for ages, watch movies, make myself happy and nothing about whatever is going on in my life. So, basically, I'll take a lot of time on that. Everything is medicine and everything is poison, so it depends with how you're using it. So, TikTok, just like PS, it might be addictive. At the moment, you're a smart person and you know what you want to achieve from using the platform. Then, you'll know how to play with it. TikTok is addictive, yes. It's also addictive. You can just squeeze it with a smartphone. So, you can squeeze it as long as you want. You can squeeze it as long as you want. You can see it online. That's how you base your Wi-Fi. This is a notification when it's raining. When it's raining, you can see the adrenaline rush. When it's raining, you can see it. When it's raining, you can see it. When it's raining, you can see it. So, this is basically human in us. You can spend a lot of your time in this story. You can spend a lot of time. You can do whatever you want. Let's say you had something to do with the family. You joined what you were doing somewhere and you can do whatever you want. It's all later, but it's like, the only thing you think in your mind is TikTok. You can do whatever you want. You can grow your account. I think TikTok is a good way to keep busy. I'm a boy. I think TikTok is going to be educative sometimes. It's going to be... I think TikTok is going to be a movie. It's going to be a part of my life, but it's going to be for me. TikTok is not addictive. It's YouTube. It's Facebook. There are people who consider using Facebook and to our generation. It's millennium. It's easy to talk to Facebook. Facebook is something you can talk to. You can't find me on Facebook at the browse for 30 minutes, 5 minutes. Most of my time, it's on YouTube. It's on TikToks and IG. Because TikTok is fun. At least it's a platform. You can chat, you can hustle the whole day. You can go to TikTok. You can talk to people. You can write short stories. You can relax. I don't see... Actually, it's the opposite of stress. It's giving people time to laugh. Maybe the whole day you haven't laughed. You can watch the clip. You can watch it. Personally, I don't spend so much on social media unless I'm earning from it. Maybe I'm doing a blog. Some people have blogs. Some say it's business. Some say it's marketing. Some say I'm doing it for fun. Maybe I'm doing it for fun. I'm doing it for fun. I'm doing it for fun. I'm not a scary person. At least there are people who are viewing you. So I think TikTok is a good... It's a motivator, actually. It's an element of motivating us to do better. I learned it by 5 likes and 200 views. Since I'm motivated, I find it something better. So I don't think it's a stress reliever. TikTok is a stress reliever. It's not a stress reliever. I have not subscribed to TikTok because it's so much infiltrated by young people. And therefore, I don't subscribe to it. But what I know is that TikTok has a bad influence to the community. That's why I have not subscribed to it. I agree because I have seen on social media people expressing concern. Mothers expressing concern that their children are always on TikTok and even adults are on TikTok. So... Anything, any habit that is not checked becomes addictive. It's very addictive. It's about an individual to control yourself. Just like anything that you consume is addictive. Even talking is addictive. It is your personal responsibility to control yourself or how you use it. TikTok is addictive. I think most of the time, when I watch TikTok, it's addictive to most people. Thank you for the roses. Thank you for the lion. This is what has been trending on my FIP for the past couple of months. If you ask me, TikTok is addictive because we have a lot of diverse content and even if you scroll day and night you never get bored. So my advice would be create a schedule so you have time for TikTok and you get to be productive at other stuff. We have come to the end of the show. 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