Facebook anti-prorogation group: it ain't just for them meddlin' kids...

Who says that pesky "Canadians against Proroguing Parliament" Facebook group is just for those young folks/talkin' bout the young stuff? (No, Dad, this doesn't mean you should join Facebook. Really.):

A study released today by the Rideau Institute finds that Facebook has been adopted by older, politically engaged voters to express frustration over the government's decision to prorogue Parliament.

A survey conducted by online public engagement strategist Pierre Killeen suggests that a majority of the more than 200,000 Canadian Facebook users who joined an anti-prorogation online group did so because they felt that the government's decision was undemocratic (53%) or that Parliament should be investigating the handling of Afghan detainees (33%).

Despite the popular perception that the online social networking site is the purview of young people who typically don't vote, the study "Facebook and Prorogation" found that users who joined the anti-prorogation group were likely to be over the age of 45 (50%), to consider themselves somewhat or very "politically engaged"(88%), and to have voted in the last election (96%).

Not that it's adamantine proof, but a quick, pixelated glimpse of the front row of last night's meeting of the Toronto anti-prorogation contingent at the University of Toronto's Hart House (courtesy of our friends over at Connect with Mark Kelley, and you'll probably agree all that silver hair isn't sprouting out of the heads of politically-active freshmen:


UPDATE!!!: And by the looks of the group's Liberals' live Q&A chat, another silver-haired chap whose name rhymes with "Stignatieff" says he plans to speak at the group's rally in Ottawa this Saturday: