Not surprising that such a huge time waster like this is generating incredible traffic volume for facebook.

Any examples of social media memes like this that add value? (aside from entertainment that is)

@Steven: I think you're thinking of MySpace.

Facebook is a lot more, mature. It's a great way to get in contact with, and stay in touch with, friends & family that you might not have otherwise. Nearly all of my extended family is on Facebook now, and it's a great way for all of us to keep up with what's going on in everyone's lives.

It's also enabled me to get back in touch with old school friends I'd lost contact with since college and wouldn't have been able to get in touch with otherwise, and find out what's going on in their lives, who they married, how many kids they've got now, where the live now, etc.

I guess the "social" aspect of these types of networks are just lost on some people.

@Energy Hoarder: How can Facebook help a business? Depends, but try searching for groups with search terms in Facebook that would relate to your business. You might be surprised at what you find given what's going on with Green these days.

I can appreciate what people are saying about spam and wasting time -- but I'd also guess the meme thing has helped to further build relationships with people who already know each other. We may not be talking business ROI here, but if that isn't "valuable" I'm not sure what is.

What would that data be worth I wonder?

Rewrite your headline 'Chain letters spread!' to notice how non-novel a piece of information this is.

Rewrite it again, 'Facebook Resorts to Chain Letters for Traffic' for a proper sense of irony.

1. I'm omnipotent.
2. I'm omnipresent.
3. I'm omniscient.
4. I created the universe.
5. I like to relax on Sundays.
6. I'm a bit on the strict side.
7. I consider myself to be very loving.
8. Don't let #7 fool you, I will damn you to eternal hell if you commit idolatry or break my other rules and don't properly beg me for forgiveness...but I really do love you ;-)
9. I'm flattered by all the fuss over me and my rules.
10. People often get my name wrong (i.e. "Allah", "Yahweh", "Vishnu", "Juju", etc.).
11. My actual name is Melvin.
12. I wish I hadn't actually disclosed my name on #11.
13. Since I'm being honest, heaven is incredibly boring.
14. Occasionally I come to earth disguised as a human being just to mix things up a bit for fun.
15. Some notable human beings I appeared as were: Socrates, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Madonna, Crazy Horse, Ronald Reagan, Mao Zedong, John Holmes, Ray Kroc, Buddy Holly, and George Burns. Ironically, I played myself appearing as George Burns, which gives extra meaning to what I wrote half a dozen centuries ago:"All the world's a stage".
16. I never appeared as Jesus, nor have I had any children named Jesus. That guy was just off his nut!
17. I do have one son. I'll just refer to him as "C.M." Sadly, he got caught up in drugs and violence during the 1960's in California. I haven't talked to him in a while.
18. Those that refer to me as "Allah" are mistaken about the 72 virgin thing. It's actually 72 GRAPES. I regret the confusion.
19. I've been drunk only once. It was the day I created the platypus.
20. I'm a libertarian.
21. I f***ing hate the social conservative evangelical movement and I'm planning on exposing more of their hypocritical bulls**t.
22. I realize that I'm partly to blame for #21. I was Ronald Reagan in 1980 after all.
23. I'm currently talking to Sigmund Freud about my temper and jealousy issues (man, is that guy "out there" or what!)
24. I think Jews are cool and I like the Palestinians, but the Danes are really my chosen people and Israel was actually meant for them.
25. I take solace in that the laws of science don't pertain to me, and that I can manipulate time, space and human minds, so I can erase any information learned from this note of 25 random things.

Goodnight and Me Bless.

I was fascinated by watching 25 Things meme around, more like a game of telephone and watching how your friends reacted. Guys seemed much slower to want to play, but were much more revealing about personal drivers than you'd expect. Some of the comments were fluffy/casual but some were strangely and heartwarmingly deep. Many were styled haikus, in that people had interesting patterns to their personal storytelling that were beyond the 25 Thing framework.

If you were largely sending these or receiving these from your RL friends, it should have been redundant to RL living. But if they were to friends now separated by time and distance (some of the charm of FB as a social tool), it unpeeled some fascinating onions...

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