You were making it sound as though this were some niche thing that only happened in my particular social group. I was simply showing that this isn't the case. It's not as though there's likely to be peer-reviewed studies on this, but here's some more links, if you'd like:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noobs%20vs.%2...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Noob

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20060823