2).Īs with anything on the Internet, why this particular distraction has suddenly become a phenomenon is anyone’s guess. 10) and calls buttered tortillas one of her favorite meals (No. Barker, by the way, likes to dance alone in the living room (No. 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.
Unlike the chain letters of yesteryear, no money changes hands and no one is threatened with apocalyptic bad luck for refusing to comply. 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. 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. 22).ĭo these oddball facts look familiar? If not, you clearly haven’t been spending much time online lately, where the latest digital fad a chain-letter-cum-literary exercise called “25 Random Things About Me” is threatening to consume what little remaining free time and privacy we have. Jim Beaver has lived through two typhoons (No. Max Evjen belonged to the high school band Little Blue Fuzzy Things (No. SARAH MORGAN will defend New Jersey passionately to anyone who will listen (No.
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