"From uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts
and fathers nodding awkwardly along to the latest grime record, the
older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth
trend is to adopt it as its own. The cyberworld, it seems, is no exception.
The proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook trying to poke old schoolfriends and lovers, and traversing the outer reaches of MySpace is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking