As a communications expert and in speaking to groups across America in how to better communication on a personal and corporate level, I'm once again wryly amused at the furor over Tik Tok. When it comes to social media communication, nothing has grown faster than this app.
Let be first admit to using the app for both business and personal entertainment. Then again, I'm far from their target audience.
When someone recently asked me, and in front of a large crowd, why I would use such a "dangerous" form of communication, I sensed the trap. Conversations such as this can take a hard turn into an argument if one is not careful and precise.
I reminded this person that over the years, and in every case, we have heard allegations and reports of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X. and even LinkedIn appropriating data and, in a sense, "spying" on the general public. I noted the China-based (and possibly yet not proven link to the Communist government) ownership of TikTok, (cutting off the likely retort), and then turned to one of my discussion favs, personal responsibility. I reminded this person that even adults are addicted to TikTok and the rest, not just kids.
We then launched into a very positive and fruitful discussion on that issue of personal responsibility. In the end, we (mostly) all agreed that ALL social media comes with "dangers", and it always, either in the case of adults or those as parents, becomes OUR responsibility in how we use social media, or anything for that matter, and what is says about our ability to reason with facts instead of hysteria.
Dialogue is good. Conversation is better. Communication is the key.
One of the tenets of my talks is personal responsibility. When it comes to both the Corporate and personal sides of life, nothing counts more than this one trait in everything we do. I often find this is one area of discussion that always surprises me with responses, and should never be avoided in every walk of life.
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