VOL.
12, No.
.
5 MARCH 11, 2011BATON ROUGE, LA
The Social Network
Africa University / 3
First UMC Covington /3
Richard Rohr / 8
While the rest of us have finally
caught up with Web sites and would not
know how to survive without e-mails,
generally...
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VOL.
12, No.
.
5 MARCH 11, 2011BATON ROUGE, LA
The Social Network
Africa University / 3
First UMC Covington /3
Richard Rohr / 8
While the rest of us have finally
caught up with Web sites and would not
know how to survive without e-mails,
generally speaking, most teens have
already moved on.
Simply setting up a Web site for
youth groups is no longer sufficient.
Unless you give teens and their leaders
and parents reasons for returning, they
will visit the site once and leave.
In email, they see a lot of junk: spam, marketers, phishers, scams, authorities,
adults, random forwards and, most
importantly, no friends.
It also is too
slow.
They want communication that is
like hitting the “Fire” button when they
play a video game.
If you are from a church that uses a
Web site and mass e-mail messages as
your primary means of sharing news and
announcements with your youth and if
that works for your group, great! Keep it
up! If it does not work and you are beginning to feel a little frust
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