Facebook faux pas: The geek's guide to netiquette, the Independent.

Leave me alone!

Coping with the deluge of virtual social interaction relies on disabling as many of channels of communication as possible, and deleting some friends. Yes, they might take umbrage, but don't worry. And if you get defriended – don't be disheartened. It's nothing personal. People can just become sick of being messaged, poked, invited and flirted with. Debrett's says wait 24 hours before accepting a friend request, so you can think it over. But maybe a better strategy is to leave them hanging. Then nonchalantly reject their request. They'll cope. It's only social networking, after all.

Net Neutrality Brings Foes Together, WebProNews.

Conservative Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds did the unthinkable today: He agreed with a liberal, which is likely against stricter interpretations of The Conservative Thought Bubble Creed (Hannity, Defense Against Liberal Arts, pg. 1). Worse, the liberal is employed by MoveOn.org, with whom agreement is punishable by excommunication and revocation of golf club membership (Limbaugh, chapters 7 and 11, El Rushbo's Guide To Neo-Conduct).

The issue making a crossing of the political aisle a much shorter trip: Net Neutrality.

Likely expecting a fiery debate on every topic during WNYC's Brian Lehrer's interview of Reynolds and MoveOn's Adam Green, Lehrer was greeted at the 23-minute mark with sudden conservative/liberal kinship. Green lauded the "people-powered" Internet with its "people powered" politics and noted Net Neutrality was something both the left and right agreed about.

Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide', CNET.

As an added bonus, social networks may be part of the reason that low-income students are largely just as technologically proficient as their peers, contradicting parts of a 2005 Pew study that detailed an economic "digital divide." According to the new study, a full 94 percent of students use the Internet, 82 percent use it at home, and 77 percent have social-networking profiles.

The "digital divide," obviously, goes far beyond Facebook profiles, and social networks come with a whole host of new problems like cyberbullying, but at least there are signs that it could be leveling the playing field a bit.