Name : Widyaninggar Putri Damayanti

NIM : 2100026093
Advanced Writing C

TikTok an Actual Learning Tool

Who doesn't know TikTok nowadays? It is a social media platform for creating, sharing
and discovering short videos. This app is used by all ages from young to old as an outlet to
express themselves through singing, dancing, lipsync, and allows users to create videos
and share them. Amateur and professional creators can upload their videos on this app.
They can add any effects, backgrounds, music, and filters, they also can collaborate on
content and create split screen duet videos even if they're in different locations. Many
people, especially parents, said that TikTok has a bad impact on its users, regardless of
whether this app also has a good impact. TikTok has a lot of advantages, it can be a tool for
studying, learning new skills like editing, and this app also can build users to gain more
confidence and creativity.

The first advantage of TikTok is that it can be a tool to study for everyone. Many teachers
post videos or live broadcasts on TikTok. They post videos with positive content such as
teaching English, Math, Science and many other subjects. On this app there is a comment
feature so that people who watch videos, or watch live broadcasts on TikTok can leave
comments anytime. They can ask questions on the live broadcast and the teacher who holds
the live broadcast can answer the audience's questions at the time. The teacher can earn
money from viewers who give them gifts that can be cashed in. So that there is an
interrelation from the teacher who holds a live or posts video on TikTok and the audiences.

The second advantage of TikTok is that this app also can be a tool for learning new skills
as it has a feature, namely TikTok Video Editor to help users in editing videos. Through this
feature, the video editing process will be more effective and easy, the video will look like a
professional video clip. TikTok itself adds several important elements that are commonly
used in the video editing process such as adding music, text, transition effects, crop, multi
video, split audio, filters, and removing unwanted objects. This feature can help users to
improve their editing skills or for an amateur videographer they can learn how to edit their
videos by using this feature. This app enables users to learn all about video editing such as
basic cutting, audio precisions, transitions and more. Also there are so many cool tips and
tricks we can learn from TikTok influencers especially on how they create and edit their
videos.

The third advantage of TikTok is that it can help the users to gain confidence, because not
all of us were born lucky to have the confidence. Some of us are just naturally shy or have
the classic case of stage fright. TikTok is one of the great platforms that encourages the
users to improve their self esteem by practising speaking skills and pronunciation in front of
the camera by making videos. This can be useful especially during school, college and work
presentations. We also get to explore our imagination and get creative ideas for making
TikTok videos. It has benefited some of the teachers around the world as they used TikTok’s
videography features to develop creative assignments as we know that we must keep up
with technology, especially in education.
 To conclude, TikTok is a social media platform for creating, sharing and discovering short
videos, that is used by all ages from young to old as an outlet to express themselves through
singing, dancing, and lipsync. This app has many advantages, for example it can be a tool
for studying, learning new skills like editing, and this app also can build users to gain more
confidence and creativity. With the many advantages of TikTok we can say that TikTok is not
another silly app but an actual learning tool.