[Air-l] A verb for using social networking sites

[Paul Jones]

(from a post to a friend earlier about this thread)

oddly. or evenly. i was at the community radio station last sunday for my 
son's teen spirit show. the show before him is put on by some 30 
somethings that pose as techies and interview bands that use a little 
tech.

the 30 somethings were raging on about myspace as if it were the latest 
greatest. 

the kids in the other room were dissing myspace heavily as being 
completely old hat and annoying. they were all on facebook and love the 
apps. but they had a problem. they had all lied about their birthdates to 
get on facebook and now that they were headed to high school and could get 
on FB with their true ages, they weren't allowed to join the high school 
group because they were, on their profiles, too old.

these are kids from a variety of backgrounds but not hispanic or black. 
asian, white, some well off, some living with single moms who are scraping 
by.

the 30 somethings were completely ignorant of FB. in that way FB is a 
college phenom. these folks weren't in college when FB appeared on the 
scene.

for the teens, FB was a "safe place" as long as they claimed to be about 
10 years older than they actually are.

i think based on listening to the two discussions that the MS v FB pretty 
complex and local to individual groups. but then i live in a college 
town. ;->

the teens all complained about the noisiness of MS, the ugly funkiness, 
the old skoolness, and the faked namedness -- did i invent enough new 
terms there?

an unscientific sample, but a sample nonetheless.