Professor Smallbeard on the Daily Show

All of you who are considering getting your library on MySpace or the Facebook need to watch a very informative video from Daily Show’s “Trendspotter” Demetri Martin. (You might have to scroll down to find the link to the Windows Media video.)

Favorite quotes:

Besides candy, online networking is the thing young people like the most, and old people like the second least.

and

So what are social networking sites? First of all, if you don’t know, you’re a loser.

It was also great to see scholar and blogger Siva Vaidhyanathan as the expert “old person” and “professor smallbeard.”

Demetri (who really does have almost fourteen thousand friends on MySpace) wraps up with this line:

The bottom line is that today, if you want to communicate with the youth, you gotta get into social networking. The only other way that I know is: emo rock.

Good to know, because either way, libraries have it covered.