While many pre-teen students and most teen students enjoy using TikTok and the ‘fun’ associated with it, recent investigations and research indicate that it presents a number of dangers that in many cases the students themselves (and parents and carers) are unaware of and, even when aware, can find difficult to address.

In recent years, and particularly during the lockdown periods of the pandemic, TikTok use seems to have grown exponentially and the App seems to have taken on a ‘life of its own’, impacting many students’ wellbeing, mental health and learning. In this article we look at many of the issues associated with TikTok and suggest what schools may be able to do to seek to counter some of its negative effects.