Andrell ‘The Detox Lady’ Johnson
Atlanta
“I think all of it falls in the same category as long as it’s on the phone. You can click on the app. It’s social media. So, anything on the app is a place where people can communicate, do business, and interact. To me, it all falls in the same category. (The negative is) the unknown. I say the unknown of things that we don’t see on the surface because we don’t know exactly what goes behind the work of (what they do) when it comes to these new platforms.”
Antonio ’Tony Tonsoril The Barber’ Wagner
Atlanta
“They are both convenient, depending on your brand and what you advertise to the individual. However, they can be useful for people trying to get a message out or trying to sell their brand or product. (But when it comes to the kids) you have to do more parenting. Just because of how things are updated now, they have more guidelines and policies that parents can follow and put provisions on the phone or apps the child uses. It’s about safeguarding and putting more control over what the child accesses with these apps.”
Akiharho Akeem Rhodes
Atlanta
“TikTok and Facebook are both the same. They’re both information gatherers. So whether you want that information to come from Mark Zuckerberg or that information gathering to come from China, they’re both doing the same thing. Somebody is gathering your data on both sides and selling it all. No differently than Google. These people do this all the time here. So I feel like TikTok and Facebook are doing the same thing, even if we know it, or even if we don’t know they’re collecting data and selling it off to the highest bidder; that’s what they do nowadays. There you go.”
Bryant Hudson
Ellenwood
“I don’t think there’s a difference between TikTok and Meta. They both get the same. If the government wants to hack into your phone, they will get it. Your information is online. It’s available to anybody. So yeah, I don’t think it’s a real difference. I just watch what I put on them. Like my son; he’s not on any of my pages. If I post him, his face is not included. I don’t want his life to be out there. (I don’t want) his whole life is documented by the time he was 18. The whole world knows me before I know myself. That type of deal.”