TikTok rollout notification curfew and other restrictions for teenagers

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Few things have been quite as socially-polarizing and troublesome in recent years as social networks. Due to a combination of its popularity and a plethora of economic and political realities, TikTok has been and is still center-stage in all of this, pretty-much constantly in and out of various courts. That being said, this new wave of measures, specifically targeting teenage users are sure to be just as polarizing, with plenty of implications. Feel free to go into those in the comment. We'll just stick to listing the changes.


First off, TikTok will stop sending push notifications to users 13-15 years old after 9PM and after 10PM for 16 and 17-year-olds. The main reasoning here being a desire to limit the pressure to interact, at least after a certain hour to these age groups, which, some research has shown are a lot more susceptible to the modern pressure of social networks than adults.

On top of that, TikTok is also tightening its private messaging restrictions. Expending on the already existing PM ban on users under 16 years of age, accounts marked 16 and 17 will now, by default, have their private messaging disabled and will require manually enabling in the account settings.