From experience, even doing all three isn't going to just magically make all your socializing problems disappear. :( Though smoking does increase the number of conversations you have with random people, because of people asking to borrow a lighter or bum a cigarette.

I know, they don't even have Farmville!

I'm not Republican, but this is bullshit. Why does everyone think the only way anyone can learn is if they are in some sort of group (i.e. school)? "Public or private school" is a false dichotomy. My mom taught me to read, and after that I've learned at least 90% of what I know on my own (I never went to public school, did two years of private school). I taught myself calculus. Apparently people are overthinking this whole education thing. It's not rocket surgery; you don't need teams of (government funded) experts in pristine white lab coats running around in order to teach Johnny that C A T is "cat" and that PI = 3.14159265358979... etc.

This is a completely worthless article. The guy can't stay on topic for even a sentence. “If you play games on Facebook, which, by the way 40 to 50 per cent of the time spent on Facebook is playing games, and those games – like Farmville and Mafia Wars – are paid for and you have to buy credits for that and they are called Facebook Credits.” This is exactly how I would expect the squirrel from Over the Hedge to explain it. Finally the article closes comparing Apple's and Tiffany's retail stores. How does this relate to Facebook? The guy is all over the map.