TikTok Will Try to Lull Kids to Sleep to Stop Endless Scrolling

It’s 10pm, do you know where your children are? Odds are they are probably in their room scrolling on TikTok, but at least now you can rest assured that the app is taking steps to make them listen to lo-fi beats to chill to. TikTok announced that it will be introducing a new feature for users under the age of 16 that is designed to encourage them to wind down rather than keep watching. The new feature, which seems will kick in automatically for users who have been identified as being under the age of 16, will introduce a full-screen “wind down” message that will encourage the teen to take a deep breath, exhale, and come to terms with the fact they have been cut off for the night. Teens can ignore the notification and keep scrolling if they want, but they’ll get hit with a second prompt that will once again encourage them to log off. TikTok says that over time, it’ll add meditation exercises to the prompt. Now, will kids actually heed the warnings and wind down? Hard to say. TikTok cl ... Read full article.