Thefacebook.com is uncool

"I've already established that any social commentary based on thefacebook.com is problematic, but, paradoxically, sometimes unrepresentative and biased sampling is the best way to do research:

In many ways, thefacebook.com has become the measuring stick of just how “popular� you are. As I wrote in my March 9 column ("An ugly display of character"), with its exclusive, invitation-only groups, thefacebook.com has allowed Stanford to crystallize the sort of cliquishness that we’re supposed to leave behind when we graduate from high school.

[The Stanford Daily Online Edition]