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Marc Prensky coined the term "digital natives" in 2001 to describe the generation that's grown up surrounded by plugs, pixels, and screens. Two films out this month, Catfish, a documentary about an online relationship, and The Social Network, on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, are giving critics the opportunity to try and best Prensky with their own monikers:

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times: The boot-up, log-on, plug-in generation

Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York: Generation Internet

John Griffin, The Montreal Gazette: The social-networking, mobile-device-dependent, electro-communicating Gen Y kids

Prairie Miller, News Blaze: Youtube generation

Corey Hall, The Metro Times: The social-networking gen 

Some especially ambitious critics have gone even further, trying to label the entire age in which we live:

Constance Droganes, Sympatico: The Facebook-age

The Toronto Sun: The me, me, me decade

Gary Thompson, The Philadelphia Daily: The anonymous Internet age

Joshua Alston, Newsweek: The news-feed age

via www.slate.com