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Last night I was catching up on the mound of reading piled on my couch. In the October 2, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek is an article entitled “MySpace for the Sandlot Set”. Basically it profiles social networking sets targeted to tweens and pretweens. Wow! clubpenquin.com, imbee.com to name a few. The author writes about his nine year old son’s experience on clubpenquin.com. That’s where his friends are. When I was nine my friends lived down the road. In my next career I am tempted to take a Ph.d in anthropology because I am fascinated by the prospect of what the impact will be on our society over the long term, particularly as these kids get older. Forget about how they will interact in the online world when they are 20. How will they interact as members of society in the physical world? I am not prejudging the answer as negative, I think it’s just interesting to think about.