For all of the hype that surrounds this app, it is an incredibly interesting app that plays a major role in the life of most adolescents today. It can create unique spaces of community on TikTok , and provide content for people to talk about, share, and bond over outside TikTok itself. However, from my own experience, I would rate TikTok a 3 out of 5. The fact that the For You page provides a constant stream of new content is a brilliant design choice to get people to spend longer on TikTok , it can often feel like the user does not have agency over what they are seeing. Additionally, fears about being on a different ‘side’ of this app than peers could be a source of stress or concern for some adolescents, adding to potential mental health effects social media can have. Most of the design of TikTok is intuitive once the user has been on it for a little bit, and while the privacy settings are not front-and-center, they are available so that adolescents can have the content that they view tailored somewhat to not include inappropriate content and to promote healthy app usage, but allowing a parent to have potential control over being able to extend time using TikTok must feel like an invasion of their privacy. However, without an external source of monitoring, it can be very easy for adolescents, as well as adults, to become compulsive this app users who only find sporadic joy from the content they watch.