Are there cliques on social networking Web sites?
In 1985, a 35-year-old filmmaker named John Hughes redefined the teen movie genre with his smash hit “The Breakfast Club.” High school kids all over America identified with at least one of the social groups represented in the film. The five characters, which were dubbed the brain, the athlete, the princess, the criminal and the basket case, aptly fit just about every type of high school clique. Sure, there are subcategories. But those five stereotypes were, and are, right on the money when it comes to high school culture. As humans evolved, they lived as individual families before quickly learning that coming together as a village of many families had its advantages. Those villages became towns, and the towns became cities. It wasn’t long after humans came together in communities that cliques were established. Researcher P.C. Broderick, in his book “The Life Span,” posits that a child’s need to define him or herself and identify with others is the main reason why. Comparing ourselves t
