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So "e-mail has become the new snail mail," passed like it was standing still by instant messaging and texting and MySpace.

"It used to be just fun," says Danah Boyd, a doctoral candidate who studies social media at the University of California, Berkeley. "Now it's about parents and authority."

This is what we deserve for goading our grandparents to get with the digital program.

Of course, in a few years IM, text, and MySpace will be just another place to get nagged about missing homework. What then?