On Wednesday night's New Parent orientation... I bumped into a bunch of Cantonese speaking parents. And we unanimously decided to create a Whatsapp group to combat /circumvent / supplement the WeChat group. Truth be told... I'm a Whatsapp fan. Maybe cuz most of my friends are Hongkongers and won't even install WeChat for philosophical and political reasons. But after creating this Whatsapp group... I can totally see the limitations. Better yet... I can see the ever-growing features of WeChat.
After the Whatsapp group was created... I did something I never did in the WeChat group. I started throwing stuff out there. Only to be met by.... crickets. Silence. No one says a word. Conversely... over in WeChat... parents are talking about lunch lines... how to use a locker... which combination lock to buy... how to enroll in Google Classroom.... PE clothes.... on and on.... a lot of humdrum, mundane stuff that's actually quite amusing.
More amazingly... the mom's in this WeChat group will just randomly form a picnic or a lunch Meet-Up... and do something called 接龍。 And it'll catch on... more people will sign up. Before you know it... there's a dozen people going to lunch together. Or picnic-ing together. Or hiking together. Completely, random strangers. It's amazing.
Cantos? Hongkongers? Good luck. Oh... and the "American" parents. They're using Shutterfly as a social platform. Geez.......... how early 2000's.
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