iWeb/Connect 0.5
iWeb/Connect 0.5 is a night for kids in grades 6, 7 & 8 to play some crazy games, eat a bunch of candy and have some fun. It's also about finding out what a guy who lived 2,000 years ago has to do with Twilight, The Jonas Brothers and Transformers (the answer is; a lot!). But the most important thing about iWeb/Connect 0.5 is that it's all about building lasting friendships with other people. You see, for a lot of us, grades 6, 7 & 8 can actually be a time in our lives where we feel very alone and very insecure. We're all just figuring out who we are and where we fit in this world. It's hard to find a place to fit.
A couple months ago Sprint, the global telephone company, revealed that one of their customers, a 14 year old girl from Florida, had sent over 34,000 text messages in one month. The crazy part is she actually did it twice. That's almost 70,000 texts in two months or, put another way, about 1100 texts per day. Which makes us wonder, did this girl send all these text messages because she felt like she had so many friends or because she felt like she had none? Is all of our text messaging, Facebook chatting, IM conversations and internet friendships just our way of trying to cover up how lonely and insecure we really are?
iWeb/Connect 0.5 is about having fun. But at it's heart, it's about giving pre-teens a place to come and hang out and realize that they are loved, that they matter and they are not alone! Make sure you come out one night and see what this whole Connect thing is all about! It might just be the place where you fit.
