{"id":206715,"date":"2022-11-17T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T05:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=206715"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:20:20","slug":"tiktok-now-works-on-desktop-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tiktok-now-works-on-desktop-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok now works on desktop thanks to an Opera update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thanks to a recent update, TikTok<\/a> now works as a side panel in your Opera<\/a> desktop browser,<\/strong> so mindless scrolling never has to cease. Not to gloss over the shocking details about training practices at TikTok<\/a>, but this feature could be a real game changer in the right situations. However, it could also cause massive distractions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This isn\u2019t the first time that Opera has out-featured its competition by quite a margin. In fact, the browser already lets users use Instagram<\/a>, Twitch<\/a>, and WhatsApp<\/a> from the built-in feature-rich sidebar. Anyone who knows anything about the way Opera does business will know that its user base and their concerns are of the utmost importance<\/strong> to the platform. Therefore, it\u2019s not a surprise that the company has decided to add this TikTok functionality as Opera\u2019s user base has been asking for such a feature for quite some time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opera\u2019s product director, Joanna Czajka, elaborated on these sentiments during the announcement of the new much-awaited feature<\/strong>. \u2018While building our browsers, we don\u2019t stop at following what is popular among our users but also try to learn how, when, and where people interact with those trending services or social media platforms. The next step in our design process is to figure out how a browser can participate in that in a way that brings the most value to our users. People focus on what they want to do, not on which device.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking of use, TikTok has become so much more than social media, with Gen Z even using the app as a search engine<\/a>. Of course, this functionality wouldn\u2019t even have been on Opera\u2019s radar had the short-video platform not had such remarkable success over the last few years. One of the key factors of this massive shift in TikTok\u2019s popularity<\/strong> is that it enables users to share content on other social media platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That way, when you\u2019re scrolling on YouTube, for example, and every second video is proudly emblazoned with the TikTok logo, you will likely become more curious about the app. You may even decide to download it and test it for yourself. This is how TikTok proliferates; it\u2019s a solid advertising method that clearly shows remarkable growth.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there are numerous concerns over having such easy access to social media on devices that are historically geared toward work. We don\u2019t refer to the individuals whose main source of income is social media like TikTok or who use TikTok to further their professional reach<\/strong> and global notoriety within various fields. We\u2019re talking about those who already find themselves too addicted to TikTok to limit their usage. TikTok addiction, while a relatively novel phenomenon, is a real concern as addiction of any kind is capable of changing individuals\u2019 lives in increasingly negative ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Troy Smith, a researcher at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, completed a study on Facebook and TikTok<\/a> to determine the density of users that exhibit actual and troubling addiction-like symptoms. The study, detailed in a post on PsyPost.org, proceeded as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Facebook<\/a> users completed a scientifically validated questionnaire known as the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, which assesses six criteria: Having obsessive thoughts about Facebook, feeling the urge to use Facebook more and more, using Facebook to forget about personal problems, trying to cutting down on the use of Facebook without success<\/strong>, becoming restless or upset when prohibited from using Facebook, and using Facebook so much that it negatively impacts school or work. TikTok users completed a modified version of the scale, in which the word \u201cFacebook\u201d was replaced by \u201cTikTok.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018As expected, higher scores on the TikTok addiction scale were associated with higher intensity usage of the platform. Using a statistical technique known as latent profile analysis, which allows for individuals with similar patterns of responses to be grouped together, the researchers classified the majority of TikTok users (68.2%) as having \u201cno risk\u201d of TikTok addiction, classified 25.4% as being at \u201clow risk,\u201d and classified 6.4% as being \u201cat-risk<\/strong>.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though this percentage is fairly low, it does exist. And, as TikTok increases in popularity, the number of people addicted to the platform is slated to grow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the inclusion of TikTok in Opera\u2019s ecosystem of easily accessible apps<\/strong> is a net positive for many users, there are still those to whom this will be a potentially detrimental update. We can only hope that social media addictions and distractions are easy to detox from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other related TikTok news, the social media platform may be moving rapidly into gaming.<\/a> Also, it has added features for adult broadcasting<\/a> so only those who are old enough can view them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a recent update, TikTok now works as a side panel in your Opera desktop browser, so mindless scrolling never has to cease. Not to gloss over the shocking details about training practices at TikTok, but this feature could be a real game changer in the right situations. However, it could also cause massive distractions. … Continue reading “TikTok now works on desktop thanks to an Opera update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9222,"featured_media":206722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2303],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-206715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-tiktok"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322906,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206715\/revisions\/322906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206715"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=206715"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=206715"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=206715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}