People have been meeting through the web since the first web page was made..the 'socialness' of the web was here long before facebook...facebook has not made any shift on how people are social on the web. People have been using things like yahoo chat, yahoo groups geocities and even newsgroups to 'hook up' for a long time. If there is a facebook generation , is there a myspace generation too? what about a hi5 generation..oh wait, what about a twitter generation? Why exactly is it that people seem to set aside rational thinking when it concerns facebook?