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Good News - We're Losing A Lot Of Teens


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#1 Rabbi Shapiro

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 11:51 AM

I haven't had time to do the exact numbers, but as of a few days after the Asifa in Citifield about the about the internet, the number of teens posting on this site has gone down sharply. Before the Asifa, most of the people writing on the site were teens, and most of the activity was on the teen forums. Now, those forums are like a ghost town.

This is a good thing. Teenagers obviously do not have Parnasa reasons to have the internet so it would be expected that they would now be giving up their internet access much more than adults.

But if you are going to be on the internet, you are more than welcome to take advantage of the no longer crowded forums. If you are using the internet, it is infinitely better for you to be on JWQ than other places online.

#2 taon

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Posted 10 June 2012 - 01:15 PM

May any such changes be only for the good!

#3 Role Model Wannabe

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 04:11 PM

Maybe us teens are busy studying for finals..... which is also a better option than the internet!

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 04:18 PM

Could be. But look at the classic.frumteens.com site and you'll see that the traffic never went down like this even during finals season.

(Oh, and that's "we" teens - just in case you're studying for an English final. ;) )

(And who says studying for finals is a better option than being on JWQ? - ;) again)

#5 Role Model Wannabe

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Posted 11 June 2012 - 04:23 PM

Haha.
Yeah, I miss the classic frumteeners.

#6 puzzles

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Posted 12 June 2012 - 10:14 PM

Or maybe... it's their parents who have restricted the use of the internet in their homes. Not to knock down anyone's inherent goodness, or encouraging statistics, but (honestly, not sarcastically) do you really think that so many teenagers (a) went to the asifa, (b.) completely shunned the internet?

#7 Rabbi Shapiro

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 01:55 PM

Of course it could be the parents. Nobody said not.

But that itself is good, that parents are getting the internet out of their homes.

And it also shows, assuming it is the parents, that teenagers are not trying (or not able) to over ride the parents' restrictions on the internet - as opposed to what others have predicted.

And, you didn't have to be at the Asifa to be effected by what was said there. The message was spread way beyond citifield.

However, how this happened doesn't really matter. What matters is that tons of teenagers are no longer on the internet since right after the Asifa. That is very good news.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 01:47 AM

or it could be some of us miss the old site and are trying to get used to this one :) b'emet tho happy to hear that less of we/us wtvr are on here! hopefully only for good reasons!

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 08:32 AM

or it could be some of us miss the old site and are trying to get used to this one :) b'emet tho happy to hear that less of we/us wtvr are on here! hopefully only for good reasons!

Can't be. The drop happened suddenly and within two-three days after the internet Asifa. Not when we started the site, which was about 6 months before that.