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Could it be that social networking sites have become so saturated by gen-x and gen-y folks that the first generation of gen-2k teens and tweens are over it?

I only ask because we had the nephews and nieces over for a BBQ this past Sunday and the subject came up. Just imagine two boys and four girls ranging in age from 13 to 19, each armed with a cell phone. It was like a texting battle to see who would shoot off the most messages. So during the constant volleying of messages I asked the kids if they tweeted but the resounding response was as if I had asked them if they wanted to listen to music on a hand-held transistor radio.

"uncle Danny, I don't even myspace anymore!?", said with that OMGRU4REAL tone by four of the six iGen kids. And the other two, they were just indifferent to the idea.

I didn't get it.

I thought tweeting was supposed to be the coolest shiznizzle for social interaction amongst the i-generation of kids. Apparently it is not so!?

According to the kids, except for Andrew and Serena, the youngest of the kids at 13, they dropped their usage of social networking sites altogether; no myspace, no facebook, no Twitter! And there I was so proud of myself for being uber-hip because I Twitter from my iPhone.

Makes me wonder what it's going to take to hook these kids into some newer, shinier and hipper way of living their lives out loud.

but before you leave, let me remind you...

"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it."

-Rodney Dangerfield.

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