“By nature, man is influenced by the conduct and views of his peers… and follows the customs of his fellow countrymen”
A Worried Mechaneches
I’ve been teaching for 27 years now, making my way up from seventh grade to high school. I currently teach in three high schools in New York; each year I have 200-plus students.
Social media is not something I know at all. I have a flip phone, own a laptop that I use only in the school office, and have no idea what the differences between all the platforms are.
I have a close relationship with my students, and I speak to my 12th-graders about the perils of online forums and social media. In reading your recent series “Follow Me Where,” I realized that I was out of my depth.
My daughter-in-law is an artist. When I asked her something about the article — how Sarah Rivkah Kohn, in Memo to Self, mentioned frum people wishing others Happy Valentine’s Day — my daughter-in-law stunned me by telling me that if I were open to it, she’d tell me all about her presence on social media. I’d had no idea that that was how she was selling; in fact, I’d embarrassingly told my students that my relative sells lots of art without resorting to using social media.
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