TikTok, the popular video app developed by ByteDance, has announced new features that will let you personalize videos more accurately. what content may or may not appear in the For You section‘ which shows recommended videos based on users’ interests. The app also includes new protection measures for the little ones, such as age restrictions or adjusting its algorithm so that it does not display content that could harm the Internet user.
One of the innovations that the platform is introducing is giving the user the ability to choose what content he does not want to see in the “For You” section. limiting hashtags or keywords. TikTok currently offers a button that allows you to mark a video as uninteresting and allows you to, in a way, prevent the app from recommending clips in that style. Now, with a new feature, by clicking on this button, it will also be possible to select hashtags or words marked in the description of this video. This, according to the company, can be useful if the user no longer wants to see the video, for example, on a certain topic, which for some reason is no longer interesting to him.
TikTok, on the other hand, too will begin to limit the appearance of videos that can harm the user. That is, content that can cause a mental health problem to develop with constant viewing, or that in some way can cause depression in some people.
TikTok will restrict some videos in the “For You” section for underage users
As for the safety of the little ones, TikTok will start restricting those videos that are inappropriate for users aged 13 to 17.; this is the age range in which minors can use the application. So far, the app has not restricted those videos that are not recommended for minors, it has simply added a notification with a button that allows you to skip the clip or watch it. Now, on the other hand, this type of video will not be shown to users in this age range.
“When we discover that a video contains mature or complex themes, such as fictional scenes that may be too scary or intense for a younger audience, the video will be given a maturity score to prevent anyone under 18 from viewing it.” through the TikTok experience.”
However, it is not clear if the app will add some kind of identification system for those minors who use the app, as Instagram plans to do. In any case, all these improvements related to the platform algorithm will gradually appear over the next few weeks.
Source: Hiper Textual
