You really want to think about your online personal brand not just as your TikTok channel or your

Instagram channel, but rather it is your name and it exists on all social media platforms.

Welcome to the full-time influencer podcast. I'm your host Tina Lee and I'll be sharing

industry knowledge and social media tips through weekly interviews with established creators and Q&A sessions. Our goal is to help you decode social media, become a full-time

influencer, and do what you love for a living. Let's dive in. Hello creators, welcome back

to another mini third. Today we are going to address the topic of TikTok potentially being banned.

So I'm going to try my best to keep this under 10 minutes, but I know it's a lot to deal with,

so let's get right into it.

So first of all, why is TikTok being banned?

Now, the primary concern is that it is a Chinese app and there are privacy concerns.

So sensitive data that could be acquired by the Chinese government that may potentially be

used against the U.S. one day. Now, this is all speculation. Obviously, the app claims certain things and the U.S.

government claims certain things. I'm not here to make any political statements or assumptions,

but that is the main concern as to why TikTok is potentially going to be banned in the U.S.

Now, this isn't the first time that the U.S. government has tried to ban TikTok.

There's already been concerns for a few years and there's already been attempts to ban TikTok.

And in fact, TikTok has already been banned in some other countries, like notably India has

completely banned TikTok and several other Chinese

apps as well. And that's why Reels is very, very popular in India because they don't have access

to TikTok. And that's also why when you grow a large following through Reels, you may see an

uptick in your Indian audience.

Now, currently in the U.S., TikTok has already been banned from government devices.

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