i found this interesting: i turned on a rain stream on youtube just as white noise, and like every livestream it comes with a chatroom–what i didn’t expect was that this chatroom is actually being used! i saw kids chatting in there and there were even regulars that seemed to have a rapport with one another.
it just really made me think that kids will almost always find a way to have a space that’s their own. and inherently us adults wouldn’t always know about it. i also heard about some teens using the discussion (or notes?) section in google docs for communication because that website wasn’t blocked on their school campus.
i love that kinda stuff and it gives me joy that they’re doing it in these margins. reminds me of passing the TI-83 calculator back and forth with my friends in math class to chat with each other (this was before we even had mobile phones, let alone smartphones).
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