TIK TOK: AGGRESSION, BULLYING, AND CYBERBULLYING AMONG HIGHSCHOOL TEENS

TikTok is undoubtedly one of the Teens` favorite social networks. Introduced by Byte Dance in 2016, its huge success has turned it into a true phenomenon with a boomerang effect on human society. It allows users to create and share short videos, with audio effects and emojis though becoming a highly engaging platform for millions of high school teens worldwide. Researchers from all fields, authorities, celebrities, as well as ordinary people, all discuss the effects that the TikTok phenomenon produces on teenagers. Regarding the research topic, this article explores how TikTok impacts school teens by potentially inducing aggressive behaviors and exacerbating tendencies toward violence, bullying, and cyberbullying. The issue stems from TikTok�s rich content of unsecured video clips, alongside the algorithmically generated video feed tailored to user searches, the presence of potentially unsafe posts in the public feed, and the act of content creation itself that brings more negatives than positives, ranging from cyberbullying to aggression. The study will focus on a semi-structured face-to-face interview survey with a subset of 100 high school students from Brasov. Nonetheless, this research aims to identify levers to counteract the harmful effects produced by this network on High School teens and to offer a complex sociological approach through which High School teens can adopt a social behavior capable of supporting a healthy society.