I pressed “post” and wanted to puke.  It was a video of my cat though, so at least I wasn’t actually putting my own face on this weird platform that seemed to be all over the place in terms of content. There weren't even tools to make the video look good or to edit it, but I was really just posting to test the waters….

It was May of 2019 and my kids told me in no uncertain terms “Mom, do NOT get on TikTok.”

Well, if you know me, you also know that I ABSOLUTELY WAS GOING TO GET ON TIKTOK now that I knew that they were so opposed 😉

I told them that since they weren’t paying me upwards of 3k to shoot their senior pics, to get over it.  (side note: I have WAY more followers and engagement than they do now on TikTok, and does the fact that I want to gloat make me a bad mom? 🤣

Anyway, my point to this little ditty is that I tested those uncharted and scary AF waters so you don’t have to! I told my senior photog friends back then to get on TikTok but most did not listen. Heck, they still ...