Facebook and new apps for English learners

Recently, I have read articles about decrease in daily Facebook users, specifically among teens. In other words, teenagers are still on Facebook; they're just not using it as much as they did.

To understand where teens like to spend their virtual time nowadays, just watch them on their smartphones. All the fun stuff is happening on their mobiles.

Facebook has become a social network that's often too complicated, too risky, and, above all, too overrun by parents to give teens the type of digital freedom. 

Their world revolves around Instagram and gradual exodus towards WhatsApp, WeChat, KakaoTalk, etc.
However, Facebook with more than 1 billon users worldwide is still a leader among social networking sites.
The question is how can you, as a student of English, use Facebook and all those apps to your own benefit and improve your language skills?

On Facebook there are lots of groups and you can join them. They can help you practice your English. They pose questions, mill games, videos, stories that you can read and play along with and they challenge you to use your English properly.

When you join these groups you are going to meet a lot of other people just like you. These people want to learn English and they are trying to it on Facebook.

If they wanna learn English and you wanna learn English you can do it together.

After you find friends you could have a chat with them or use your skype hangouts on Google.

You can also study grammar. There are hundreds  of grammar sides. Teachers have uploaded lots and lots of different charts, rules and exercises on to Facebook and you can join those pages. 
The pages are being updated  almost daily and you can see more and more rules, learn grammar and get better at English. After all the father of modern English literature William Shakespeare has his Facebook account - pages...
https://www.facebook.com/WilliamShakespeareAuthor/

A lot of people post videos on Facebook  to help you practice your listening in English. And if you do that it is like being with someone.You can hear them talking, listen to the proper  pronounciation, so it can certainly help too. 

The last thing you can do to help yourself learn English on Facebook is that you find a page that you are interested in or people that you are interested in. Read the conversations right there. They are really good at talking and they use a wide range of vocabulary. 
The more you read the better you will get. 

And let's not forget mobile apps. With these apps for learning English, it'll almost be like playing a game  no more boring vocabulary and grammar exercises!

So those are all different ways that you can try to improve your English using Facebook and different apps.

Share, learn and enjoy English...

Facebook pages:
https://www.facebook.com/myenglishteachers
https://www.facebook.com/grammarly
https://www.facebook.com/GrammarUpdates
https://www.facebook.com/bbclearningenglish.multimedia

Apps:
http://openlanguage.com/library/learn-english/10/culture-show/478/top-5-ios-apps-for-learning-english

YouTubers and Vloggers

Most of us can’t live a day without watching YouTube music, funny or some educational videos. Can you imagine your life without watching YouTube at all? Probably not.

YouTube has become the most important media in people's lives. It is mainstream media that completely permeated global media culture.

YouTubers are already mainstream stars and celebrities. They are making lots of money from their self-built careers. What is it like to be a YouTuber or a vlogger? Why make YouTube videos?

As I know that a few students of mine are successful vloggers I asked them. YouTubers sit and perform for the camera. It is not so easy to become famous and successful as it seems. Vloggers are documenting their daily lives, giving advice on everything and sharing their thoughts on the world around them. Actually, they are vlogging their life online.