Impact of TikTok on University Students’ Academic Achievements

Social media do have a significant impact on peoples’ social life, professional life as well as

personal life. The present study was conducted to determine the time spend by students on

TikTok and to analyze the impact of TikTok on students’ academic achievements.  

It can be concluded that even though TikTok has a positive impact on students’ mental health

and creativity, watching and posting TikTok Videos are time consuming activities and thus have

a negative impact on students’ academic achievements. (Herath, H. M. W. M.)

The Influence of TikTok on Teenagers

TikTok is an application that is available for everyone to publish their videos, and the length of

the video varies from 15 seconds to 1 minute. Along with the increase in the viewer group, more

and more teenagers download this application and start to shoot videos at home, school, market

and everywhere. People begin to argue that TikTok has brought too many negative effects to

teenagers. In the research, there are both the positive and negative influences of TikTok.

TikTok played a nonnegligible impact on teenagers in three aspects. TikTok can be used as an

educational tool, it can satisfy teenagers’ mentality but it does contain over-exaggeration content

that shapes teenager’s value in a misleading way. (Guo, J. 2022, January)

References:

Herath, H. M. W. M. Impact of TikTok on University Students’ Academic Achievements–A

Case Study of UvaWellassa University of Sri Lanka.

Guo, J. (2022, January). Research on the Influence of TikTok on Teenagers. In 2021

International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021) (pp.

1390-1393). Atlantis Press.