I wish to say that there is no age criteria for social networking, as the word clearly shows that networking of society, we have to see in a way that involve all the people in the society irrespective of their age. So can us in the social networks and make ur life meaningful.
my personal experience is that youngsters welcome a person of any age.they are not embarassed of a frnd who is- say- double their age. & children take pride if their parents are so net savvy.
I was on orkut i got bored than i came to know abt facebook i was not interested one day when i saw one of its application , i fall in love with facebook.Its rocking , Orkut doesnt stand in front of facebook althought face book was started after the orkut only still i solute them for their innovative thinkng which made millions of ppl around the world to leave orkut and join facebook and that day will come soon when google will sell orkut to some one else and buy facebook if they wont microsoft will do it and then they will intregate MS yahoo and FAcebook to give an intregated user interface like google is tryin to do now
Social Networking sites like Orkut is open for everyone..young and elderly...my father (and he is 65) has an account in Orkut and he gets connected to all my family members and cousins abroad. Also he uses Orkut to share lot of pics and videos when I am not with him.
It looks like that. The youngsters feel like and act like that. One can find a lot of questions which will be a bit awakard for the elders.Another thing one can notice that youngsters avoid elders Q &A,views,comments in a social sites.All these youngsters are not going to remain always young.The sooner they realise it will be better.