According to the Digital 2023 Global Overview, people around the world spend an average of more than 6 hours and 40 minutes a day online, making the Internet an increasingly important part of life. According to Exploding Topics smartphone usage statistics in Asia. found that the rate of time spent on smartphones by people more than 5 hours a day
TikTok believes that providing the knowledge, skills and understanding of digital literacy and essential tools will help internet users protect themselves from potential harm or threats.
This year, TikTok will continue building knowledge in four areas: Minor Safety, Cyber Bullying and Harassment, Combating Disinformation. (Misinformation) and Digital Well-Being to elevate the internet space to be a safe space for everyone in the community.
TikTok therefore has a campaign through the campaign. #Safe area for plowing feed in collaboration with the Internet Foundation for the Development of Thailand (INET), Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), Office of the Health Promotion Foundation (SorSor.), Foundation for the promotion of reading culture. and the Association of Radio and Media for Children of Youth (TSO) to educate and raise public awareness, leading to changes in all sectors, especially children and youth, to be able to use online media safely and creatively.
In addition, TikTok has continued the campaign. SaferTogether 2.0 continues from last year to educate users on best practices. To create safety for themselves and the community through 3 approaches as follows
Understanding the privacy settings of user accounts (Privacy setting)
To cope with diverse opinions and create a healthy online space Account privacy settings and video privacy are one of the best options and can be done manually. When an account is set to private, only approved people will be able to follow users, like, or access videos. Live-streaming User account history Following list and followers. Public accounts can set privacy settings for each video to choose who can view each video. Video and user account privacy settings can be adjusted at any time.
Create a safe space through settings to filter out negative comments (Comment filters).
Users can set up comment filters. By choosing to allow anyone to comment, for example, everyone can comment. Only friends can comment. or only followers can comment In addition to filtering comments Users can also report comments that tend to violate our Community Guidelines.
Set a suitable daily screen time.
Wellbeing can start with setting up your daily screen time. There will be a notification when the time is set on TikTok. Limiting screen time is good for long-term health. And for parents, their children’s daily screen time can be directly set each day. If parental controls are set
In this regard, the digital literacy model focuses on 4 key areas:
- Minor Safety – Statistics from the Royal Thai Police show that more than 20% of children in Thailand are at risk of online child exploitation and the second highest percentage of offenders in the world. With Thai youth, TikTok is committed to providing knowledge to children and parents to take part in dealing with this issue seriously.
- Cyber bullying and harassment – According to the Internet Foundation for the Development of Thailand and the Coordinating Center for the promotion and protection of children and youth in the use of online media. Revealed that 31,965 youth aged between 9-18 years old had been cyberbullying. In addition to raising awareness of cyberbullying and harassment, TikTok fosters a culture of respect for differences. participate in expressing opinions constructively
- fight against disinformation – According to data from the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, over the past year, there have been clues and monitored online discussions about fake news. And found that there are 517,965,417 news messages that need to be screened, which is an issue that TikTok attaches great importance to. We have measures in place to verify information. Along with providing knowledge on data screening to users along with
- Digital Wellbeing – Statistics from the Office of the National Digital Economy and Society show that Thais have a Digital Well-being score of 68, but only 18.8% have a very good level of digital well-being. Therefore, increasing the body of knowledge and practices to promote good digital well-being of Thai people is another important thing for us.
When users have good knowledge and understanding of digital usage, It will bring about the elevation of online society in many dimensions, from the screening of disinformation. Avoiding Internet Threats as well as having good mental health online In fact, these problems can be reduced if we understand and learn to use technology wisely.
