Comment by lapcat

> the kids who were socially marginalized in the prenetworks era also did not get to see the parties the socially active kids were having

What do you mean exactly by the distinction between "socially marginalized" and "socially active"?

There was a social hierarchy where some kids were considered "popular" and others "unpopular", though really the distinction was more accurately between the beautiful/attractive kids and the average/unattractive kids, and certainly the unattractive kids did not get invited to the parties of the attractive kids, but the unattractive kids had plenty of parties among themselves, to which the attractive kids were usually not invited either.

Perhaps there were some kids who were truly marginalized, with no friends at all, but unattractiveness by itself did not necessarily marginalize you socially.