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The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

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Scrolling vs. studying

Ted McCarren, Staffer April 15, 2024

As far as school goes, students and teachers can be very affected by social media. TikTok is infamously known to be a very addicting way to procrastinate from schoolwork, yet also contain easily accessible...

Shop ‘til you drop

Shop ‘til you drop

Hanna Lipschultz, Echo Staffer January 25, 2024

The TikTok shop was launched in Sept. and it has since earned a lot of attention. Different social media platforms have been implementing ways to shop directly through their forum. When one opens the TikTok...

Scroll. Search. Watch. Repeat.

Scroll. Search. Watch. Repeat.

Sarah Kluckhohn November 27, 2023

You open Tiktok. You should be doing homework, but it’s fine, you’ll only be a minute. You scroll, and the first thing you see is Tana Mongeau telling you Panera’s Charged Lemonade “f*cking killed...

Weaning off the screen

Weaning off the screen

Anya Panday March 24, 2023

Social media has become a norm in our lives for a while now — following the pandemic, social media use spiked. With more than 59% of the world using social media, it’s become an integral part of our...

TikTok trends dominate student life

Nora Hall September 30, 2021

TikTok has been a huge social media platform since it went from Musical.ly to TikTok Aug. 2018. Prior to the change, many teens came with it and so did the trends. TikTok is a platform where teens can...

TikTok benefits from Oracle deal

TikTok benefits from Oracle deal

Aisha Hersi September 23, 2020

With 100 million American users, TikTok proves to be quite influential. With recent data privacy misconceptions, they have united with Oracle as their secure cloud technology provider. This allows it to...

TikTok threatened by US government

TikTok threatened by US government

Gillian Kapinos September 4, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, people have turned to social media as an escape from the real world. Influencers and small businesses similarly turned to social media for advertising. Now, one of the...

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