The social networking backlash

There is an AP article in this morning's Seattle Times calledBreaking up with social-networking sites. It talks about how people, especially young people in the US are eschewing social-networking sites for a variety of reasons.

As the novelty of their wired lives wears off, they're also are getting more sophisticated about the way they use such tools as social networking and text and instant messaging — not just constantly using them because they're there.