The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

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...

BookTok books in the Park library. Each of these books has found fame on the social media platform TikTok over quarantine.

‘BookTok’ takes over the reading world

Sarah Kluckhohn March 2, 2022

If you’ve been on TikTok at all recently, I’m sure you’ve heard of BookTok.  The hashtag recently hit 39 billion views on the platform and its impact on the young adult genre has been astronomical.  Books...

Photo illustration by Crystal Diaz.  Students laying in circle while using phones.

Social media turning you green?

Grace Stillman, Elena Ortiz-Fishman, and Katie Nelson October 18, 2021

Understanding the impact of social media can help teens navigate conflicts, nearly every teen is now involved on social media platforms. Social media stems from a desire to connect with friends and family,...

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...

People should stop identifying as ‘super-straight’

People should stop identifying as ‘super-straight’

Anna Benishek March 14, 2021

Recently, people have been identifying themselves as “super-straight” on TikTok. The term “super-straight” is meant to refer to a preference of the opposite sex with the exclusion of transgender...

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‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ entertained, disappointed

Jacob Khabie January 7, 2021

Logging on to watch “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical,” I was intrigued but also had serious doubts. While I had enjoyed watching small creators around the world come together on the social media platform...

Junior Gavin Thoe makes a dancing TikTok while on break at his job at Five Guys. Thoe has gained 103 thousand followers since he began making TikToks in November 2018.

Student reaches over 100k followers on TikTok

Anna Benishek November 6, 2020

After hitting 100,000 followers on TikTok, junior Gavin Thoe posted a mash-up of videos of his most popular content as a thank you to his fans. Thoe said that he is grateful to have an app where he...

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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