The Random Beauty of 25 Random Things

It seems that Facebook is getting filled with “email people.” Their idea of fun social networking is forwarding. Apps, tagging, and everything that lets you put a check mark on send to all? Yes. Dropping by to say hi on your wall, sending a message, hell, even chatting? No thanks. From Salon.com:

“Over the past two weeks, I’d found my steady purr of status updates on Facebook interrupted by the ever-growing, viral cacophony of the “25 Random Things About Me” chain letter. In case you haven’t been “tagged” yet (fear not, you will be) the concept is simple. Generate a list of 25 “things, facts, habits or goals” about yourself in the notes section of your profile and hit submit. Then, annoy 25 of your Facebook friends by encouraging them to do the same. “If I tagged you,” the instructions explain, “it’s because I want to know more about you.”

The article ends up in a “if you can’t beat ‘em, join em” conclusion because “we’re a nation entertained by lolcats”, but lolcats are at least authentic and way more fun.