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Entry: Right Face! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/right_face#13140 Post contents: As part of that "young facebook right", as Frank already knows, I do have a few things to add to the discussion. Facebook really <i>was</i> the domain of the elite before... only elite colleges (Ivies, Duke, upper-crust lib arts schools, etc.) had access. Even someone at a fly-over country lib arts school (which I was at first) had no chance when facebook first launched. I later attended a regional state university (to avoid the constant campus ideological campaigns at my prior school), where facebook access came only a short year or so before it opened up to nearly everyone. As such, there are still some remnants of that origin on facebook. There are a lot of groups that represent the obscurantist humor of well-read young people (the pro-Stuart group I'm a member of would be an example, judging by most of its posts) though which jokes are funny changes a bit across the ideological spectrum. What facebook does show is the groundswell of support for traditional religion and beliefs among people in the 18-30 set, a broader trend foreseen in a small group of late-baby boomers and gen-xers only now realized. (For demographic data on that group, see "The New Faithful" by Colleen Carrol.) Facebook reinforces those trends by supporting those people through either obvious groups to groups based around a shared sense of humor and identity. Sent at: 2008 11 23