Hey, as a teenager I would like to say that spending time online is actually a new form of social interaction. There are people on the other side of the screen "levelling" up with you and you have to talk to them and treat them like real people because that's what they are. Times change, and not always for the worst.
By the way, I can not wrap my head around why people feel it's so important to use all the "hip" "slang" but at the same time distance themselves from the users of the words by "inappropriately" disconnecting the "jargon" from the rest of the sentence by "containing" the unfamilliar words in quotation marks. Not to mention that the words are frequently used wrong. Teenagers are people too, and alot of us are just as smart and aware of our surroundings as many adults (in some cases we are much more aware, whatever the reason for that may be).
Oh, and for someone who has kids, you should try to sound like you've actually had experience interacting with teenagers. Your article makes it sound like you've only ever heard of these strange creatures in textbooks and fairy tales.
All that aside, I myself received a lockerz invite, and I have been trying to figure out what the website is. I'm more than a little offended at all the stereotypes for teens the site uses (worse, the fact that they usually work), but for the most part it just seems like an annoying way to conduct market research. The prizes sound nice, but then again there's the whole "fresh out" problem. This article has at least been a little more informative.
Hey, as a teenager I would like to say that spending time online is actually a new form of social interaction. There are people on the other side of the screen "levelling" up with you and you have to talk to them and treat them like real people because that's what they are. Times change, and not always for the worst.
By the way, I can not wrap my head around why people feel it's so important to use all the "hip" "slang" but at the same time distance themselves from the users of the words by "inappropriately" disconnecting the "jargon" from the rest of the sentence by "containing" the unfamilliar words in quotation marks. Not to mention that the words are frequently used wrong. Teenagers are people too, and alot of us are just as smart and aware of our surroundings as many adults (in some cases we are much more aware, whatever the reason for that may be).
Oh, and for someone who has kids, you should try to sound like you've actually had experience interacting with teenagers. Your article makes it sound like you've only ever heard of these strange creatures in textbooks and fairy tales.
All that aside, I myself received a lockerz invite, and I have been trying to figure out what the website is. I'm more than a little offended at all the stereotypes for teens the site uses (worse, the fact that they usually work), but for the most part it just seems like an annoying way to conduct market research. The prizes sound nice, but then again there's the whole "fresh out" problem. This article has at least been a little more informative.