Are you "in" ?

So many events are happening in the world that it takes effort to keep track of it. I for one use, like so many others, the Google news to keep track. There were times when people used to share news in the first half hour in the office. Many would not have read the newspaper and others who had would update. But now every body uses probably the google new service and all of them are updated with the news. Since they assume every body else do the same there is no news sharing.

Then ofcourse we have now Twitter, Facebook and Orkut that allows people to share news tidbits very fast. But the king of them all is the SMS facility on mobile with active use of group SMS.

Many of us assume other keep track of the news. Converstations are carried out under this assumption and until some one dares to ask "What". The other day conversation veered around the smileys with the thought every body knew about smileys that is until one the persons in the group dared to ask "What". The conversation stopped. The questioner was given a hard look and the group dispersed.

The question is are people who are not aware of FB,Orkut,Google,Twitter and those who do not know how to send SMS, use bluetooth etc are not considered "in"?