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Sat 06 Jun 2007I read your news today, oh boy Present TensePeer pressure is something most people vaguely remember from their adolescence, when to conform they were supposed to start smoking and have holes in their jeans, despite neither having any discernible benefits, writes Davin O'DwyerAs we grow up, peer pressure becomes more a set of self-imposed expectations. I have recently, however, been subjected to the sort of unreconstructed peer pressure not experienced since my knees were subjected to sharp, cold winds. Instead of nicotine or threadbare denim, this time the chorus of conventional wisdom concerned Facebook, the phenomenally popular social networking site.