As someone who is in their 50’s, I think I’ve become “one of the cool kids”… okay, maybe not but I did become somewhat cool lol.

I have Facebook, heck, nearly every man, woman, teenager and their dog, cat or bird has a Facebook account but watching the reels on Facebook, I noticed that there were a lot of videos that were posted from Tiktok in the Facebook reels.

Seeing all the Tiktoks on the Facebook reels made me decide to check out what Tiktok was all about as the videos I was watching on Facebook, weren’t what I thought Tiktok was all about.

For me, Tiktok was all about teenagers trying to post dancing videos to get them trending and make them go viral… boring having to watch virtually the same thing on repeat with all the videos, I thought.

Then I decided, what the hell, I’ll make a Tiktok account just to see what Tiktok is really about for myself, so I did. I thought if I didn’t like it, I could delete it.

On 18 June 2022, I embarked into the world of Tiktok with my newly created account. Wow… life was changed from that moment on! Once you have joined Tiktok, life will never be the same again, if you haven’t taken the plunge yourself, trust me.

I joined and I only knew 3 people in my real world who were on Tiktok already and I found them and followed them so I wasn’t alone in this strange world of Tiktok, trying to figure out how it all works… thank you Google for telling me at the start on how to use Tiktok lol. Yes, Google is my best friend, it knows lots more random stuff than I do!

When I joined Tiktok, I never thought I would travel to different places around the world or meet amazing people I have met, a lot of them, I now call friends. It’s fun travelling to different locations here in Australia, or around the world, travelling by Tiktok Airlines and doing Tiktok Travel.

On Saturday 9 July 2022, I was excited by making my first Tiktok friend, who was doing a live, short for livestream, in Melbourne by the Yarra River in the South Bank area of the sunset from there. The sunset was amazing and as I watched the host’s live, the host was talking to me in the chat and she was being friendly towards me and welcoming. It made this Tiktok newby happy to be able to watch the live and see the views that I was familiar with after many visits to Melbourne myself. On the Sunday, this person was out in the same area doing another spectacular sunset live. I have the screenshots to prove how spectacular these sunsets were… too bad I didn’t know then how to swipe the comments off the screen lol.

This person, she slowly introduced me to her main group of Tiktok lives as she walked around Melbourne over the next few weeks, all amazing people and they all let me hang out with them when they are doing a live. Now I’m meeting more of them, it’s pretty amazing.

I’ve also made friends overseas as well by scrolling through the vast variety of lives and joining in to watch and make comments in the chat. Thank you Tiktok for making the world a not so big place to live in.

The thing I didn’t know because Tiktok don’t tell you this because they inform everyone that you need 1,000 followers to go live… here’s a tip for someone who needs to know this bit of information because they want to go live on Tiktok, here in Australia, you only need 500 followers to go live, I had 513 followers on my back up account and was able to go live on that account. On my main account, I had 943 followers and discovered then that I could go live.

Going live now means that I can do livestreams and get into the guest boxes in the chats. The age for going live is going to change on 23 November 2022 to 18 years and over, sorry kids, the age limit was 16 years old or over to be able to go live.

Since joining Tiktok, the TV is feeling neglected as I’m watching a lot of lives or watching friends videos. There’s always something interesting to watch or friends to talk to during a live.

I also discovered that Tiktok isn’t what I thought it was. It’s better and I’m loving it.

Until next time

Kaye