The latest newsflash from the closest thing we have to a real national newspaper (sorry USA Today): Teenagers greet each other with hugs. Some people like to be hugged, others, not so much. And....er... that's about it.
Aside from the silliness of building an entire news story around this slender not-much-of-a-concept, there's the question of how the reporter and his/her friends greeted each other when teens. Did they have some complicated sets of hand gestures? Did they bow? Perhaps they developed a complicated ritual greeting dance involving ping-pong balls and exchanges of sock monkeys? In any case, at my school, we merely hugged each other, us brave trend-setters, and it did NOT make the New York Times*.
* Although Alice Kahn did write a wonderful piece on Berkeley High student fashions in which my friends and I make a cameo, and that got published in the East Bay Express and in book form... but I digress.
