In this era where TikTok has become popular and trending in our society, a lot of students have been influenced by the application. TikTok application has emerged as a powerful tool for entertainment, creativeness of short videos online and dissemination of the videos to the public.
This application is mostly used by young people, although now it is generally used by almost everyone. The application replaced some of the time spent on other social media for most of the participants of this research while increasing the screen time of others.
However, TikTok addiction has affected a lot of students academically because most of the students spend more of their quality time on TikTok, which can diminish their focus on studies because the application easily distract students from focusing on their academics and wasting more valuable time that they could be investing in their learning.
Although, the application also comes with its advantage that creative or talented students can make use of the opportunity to get good use and maintaining productive study habits e.g expanding their levels of education, sharing of research result about a particular subject area, exchanging of ideas etc. but most students prefer using the application to do things that will not add any value to their academics.
Moreover, TikTok can help students practice pronunciation and speaking skills in front of camera, they can also learn skills that they can apply in class and to the world such as video editing as basic cutting audio precisions but a lot of student take TikTok as a silly app.
According to statistics over 110 female and 130 male students aged from 23-27 use TikTok daily and the results showed that 31.25% of student were addicted to the application not for studying but for fun which can affect there academic levels.
And lastly students should take time to do things that can add benefit to them using TikTok.
Muhammad Mustapha level 3 student of mass communication, Borno State University.
