The total time a teenager tallies on TikTok? A taxing topic.

Answer: 95 minutes per day! (around 47.5 hours a month)

Questions:

• How much time do you spend on TikTok? What do you like about it?
• Has TikTok ever impacted your financial knowledge or have your purchasing decisions been influenced? How?
• Do you believe TikTok (and/or other social media apps) have an overall positive or negative impact on young people’s lives? Explain why.

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Behind the numbers (Omnicore Agency): 

• TikTok users spend an average of 95 minutes per day on the app.
• An average user opens TikTok 19 times per day.
• TikTok is available in 154 countries.
• TikTok was the most downloaded app in 2022 with 672 million downloads.
• TikTok is used by 18% of global internet users aged 16 to 64.

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Ryan Wood

Ryan grew up with and maintains a love for learning. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with a degree in Business Administration and worked in sports marketing for a number of years. After living in Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, and Minnesota, the call of education eventually brought Ryan back to his home state of Wisconsin where he was a Business and Marketing teacher for three years. In his free time he likes to spend time with his wife and daughter, play basketball, read, and go fishing. Now with NGPF, Ryan is excited to help teachers lead the most important course their students will ever take.