Don't forget to mention KofK, tell them all to sign up.
No, wait, no... Just don't!!!
xD


I enjoy more the rebellious part than the drama.
I never understood it even when I was a teenager myself, I don't get it much more now.

ROFL
Can you imagine trying to promote this to my students, who are mostly learning English writing?
Okay you know where you can really practice your English conversation skills? A forum site!
What's a forum you ask? Well, before you were born...


The drama can be entertaining sometimes when you're just listening to it as a bystander. One of my students loves telling me about her friend who is juggling three boyfriends (they're high schoolers). So now I look forward to her tutoring lessons like looking forward to watching the next episode of a show XD

I can appear as a testimonial.
"My English has improved so much since I joined this forum.
My husband could not believe it, but I finally convinced him to try a forum himself and he does not regret it."


Forums do not work with young people anymore.
Hell, I tried during the lockdown, but no way, they just think it's alien technology xD


I suppose I don't find it amusing, so it's just looks soooooo silly.

Right? It's like a foreign word now.

I find that the younger generation generally just don't take to text anymore. It's all about the short videos, tik toks, instagrams... Reading anything that's more than 3 sentences long in their spare time is difficult >__<


I think I find the drama interesting because it's really really baffling. Like watching some alien interaction that you've never experienced and cannot comprehend the logic behind (because we're old QAQ)...
I feel like an anthropologist observing an exotic new race sometimes LOL

That scares me a bit to be honest.
They need everything short and visual. Both simultaneously.
If it's all text, they have troubles to understand it.
If it's long (even if it's visual) they have troubles to keep their attention on it.
So, of course, a long text is just some kind of curse for them.

Exactly!
And that makes me worried as an English teacher.
Like sure nobody reaaaally reads allll the novels that are assigned. But when I was in school, at the most I Sparknotes it. Students nowadays can't even do that. I'd recommend Sparknotes to my students, they'd try it, and then tell me they still don't understand the plot.

I've had a student show me tik tok videos summarizing stories which she uses as the basis of her understanding and thus writing. Like... how do you expect to understand a whole novel with a 3 minute tik tok??

I've been recently angry at Youtube for constantly suggesting me recaps of movies.
I did not know what it was, but apparently there a millions of channels which just summarize movies into 5 to 10 minutes so people don't have to watch the whole movie.
And that's a movie you watch for your own leisure! Why would you do that?

I actually watch some of those recap channels. The biggest reason is that I'm terrified of any horror/thriller, but I'm super curious about the plots of horror movies... Soooo it hits my needs XD

I think a lot of forums are filled with millennials and all the teens and such are on social media rather than these types of sites - I love them because I love the anonymity and freedom of expression; plus they're just cute and you can actually make some great online friends.

I've never been very good at social media but it's crazy that teenagers can make money just by posting stuff...

How can you, Natsu, how can you? XD


Yeah, I suppose it's just natural. We don't use the same stuff our parents did, do we?
I suppose they also think we also want everything too quickly, almost instant-like. But we abandoned snail mail in favor of e-mail, so...

We are getting old, girls, we are.