"I really enjoy the joy of being me and i am dedicated to sharing that joy with you."
That was an assignment from yoga class tonight… Well, we were supposed to phone friends, I thought I’d just post it.
It seems that everyone I know on Facebook has been tagged with "25 Random Things About Me" except me.
I’m hurt that nobody wants to know more about me.
I think I’m fascinating but apparently there’s no demand.
(I confess I did not read any of my Facebook friends’ 25 Random Things.)
And now I see in the New York Times that filling out such a survey is a symptom of narcissism:
Here’s how it works: friends send you an e-mail message (or, on Facebook, “tag” you in a note posted to their profile) with 25 heartfelt observations about themselves — like “I named my son after a man I’ve never met” or “I once paid good money to see Whitesnake in concert” — along with instructions for you to follow suit. You are then expected to gin up your own clever list and foist it upon 25 people, including the friend who asked for it in the first place.
Unlike the chain letters of yesteryear, no money changes hands and no one is threatened with apocalyptic bad luck for refusing to comply. Yet the practice has spread so far and so fast that a Google search for “25 Random Things About Me” yields 35,700 pages of results, almost all of which seem to have been created in the last two weeks.
“It’s really interesting to sit there and try to think of 25 things that you’re willing to tell other people but that they don’t already know about you,” said Ms. Morgan, a health care industry publicist who has kissed 6 1/2 boys (No. 16), is legally blind (No. 19) and didn’t go to school until the fourth grade (No. 7).
“It was harder than I thought it would be, honestly,” she added. “I guess I’m kind of an open book.”
On Facebook, the apparent epicenter of the craze, nearly five million notes on people’s profiles have been created in the last week, and many of them are lists of “25 Random Things.” The note-creation figure is double the previous week and larger than any other single week in Facebook history, and Facebook executives say that the “Random Things” craze is driving it.
