Meet the Gen Y ‘refuseniks’: The people eschewing Facebook and Twitter

Do you know someone in his or her 20s or early 30s who refuses to join a social network? According to The Washington Post , these people are called “refuseniks”; they have gone “off the grid,” eschewing Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and the like. They aren’t Luddites, as The Post ’s Ian Shapiro insisted, but high-functioning adults who prefer privacy and face-to-face communications. Meanwhile, the vast majority of their peers are social networking pros, Sha…