Our Parents: “Gee whiz, wanna go to the sock hop with me?”
Us: “You have been poked by Katie Brown.”

Our Parents: Being well-dressed
Us: Putting up consistently charming away messages

Our Parents: Thinking about sex
Us: Videos of people having sex freely available

Our Parents: Hiding porn under your mattress
Us: Deleting Paris Hilton bookmarks

Our Parents: Apocalypse Now
Us: Carnie Wilson’s stomach-stapling webcast

Our Parents: Appreciating Seargent Pepper’s on vinyl
Us: Beatles’ entire recorded output on one CD your friend burned for you

Our Parents: March on Washington
Us: Bonsai kittens petition on thefacebook.com

Our Parents: Classical languages, great works of English literature
Us: McSweeney’s

Our Parents: Racism
Us: Playlistism

Our Parents: Being true to your school
Us: Being true to your transnational Half-Life 2 squadron

Our Parents: Histrionic personality disorder with passive-aggressive tendencies
Us: Livejournal

Our Parents: Masturbation
Us: Personal website creation

Our Parents: “God, I’m so sorry about your mom’s cancer. Is there anything I can do to help cheer you up? I had some brownies I baked for the Girl Scout bake sale but you can have them.”
Us: OMG :( G2G

Our Parents: Unemployment
Us: “I’ve got this great idea for an Internet startup”

Our Parents: Meditative LSD spirit journey
Us: The Purity Test

Our Parents: Civil rights
Us: blackpeopleloveus.com

Our Parents: George Martin
Us: “Yo, let’s mash Limp Bizkit with ABBA.”

Our Parents: Playing outside
Us: N/A

Our Parents: The Ampersand
Us: Amperonline (www.wesleyanargus.com)!