Thursday Theories – Tik Tok

I will start this blog post with a warning. I am not 100% sure what happened on there, all I know is that there were a lot of parents who stopped posting tik toks of their kids on there. It seemed to have involved child exploitation on there too. One of the reasons I have not written about this before is because I am not a parent. At the same time though, I keep wanting to say

*warning* child/minor exploitation

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

A lot of social media sites have an age limit for a reason. There’s a good reason why a lot of social media, will not allow you to post naked, even sweet pictures, of your children, say in the bath.

We all get it. There’s people out there who “do not” though. There are some sick people out there, who literally do not get it.

Even if you do not post naked or semi naked pictures of your kids, in all pure goodness. There are some sick people out there. I don’t even want to imagine what they’d do with videos, clothed.

Now onto the other different topic. Too lose a child, I can’t begin too imagine. Unfortunately, I don’t think the parents suing Tik Tok for negligence, will win.

Dear parents, you are NOT your child’s friend. You are their PARENT. You are responsible for them. Not a social media company. The age limit for tik tok is 13, not 9 or 8. Most people say common sense, it should be 15 really. We’re in 2022, sorry, but that is not tik tok’s fault, you didn’t say no and clearly did not monitor your child’s activity.

People in there’s teens, 20s, 30s 40s+ Cannot handle social media. Why in HECK would you not be monitoring your 9 YEAR OLD!

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Banning the Ban!

Is there anything more Magical than a Quokka?!

Would you look at that puddum?

I am on Instagram and Instagram is becoming more and more animal wildlife exploitation aware…and it’s fantastic!

Popular quokka selfie hashtag could be banned by instagram

The #quokkaselfie prompts an “Instagram Alert” that comes along with Instagram accounts that are suspected and confirmed of animal exploitation. (Think BJWT)

The quokka, the tiny marsupial native to a handful of islands off Western Australia – including WA Tourism jewel in the crown Rottnest Island.

This mean that Instagram believes that the photos you are viewing could be apart of wildlife exploitation…Now there are some “companies” who do do this (look up BJWT Corruption) and the warning comes up for the BJWT pages on Instagram, because they DO exploit animals…

However…

A spokesperson for the Rottnest Island Authority told The West Australian that the warning was “unhelpful”.

“The Instagram block notice … does not serve to educate or inform the public about our conservation efforts or direct people to how they might develop a better understanding of this native species,” he said.

“The RIA takes seriously its responsibility to protect the quokka population on the island and there are significant penalties for people who interfere with native flora and fauna.”

Quokka’s are well known for being extremely friendly and not being generally frightened of human beings. Which means there are a LOT of #quokkaselfie and they look like they are grinning…

So what do you all think? What is wildlife exploitation for you?