I thought the informal statistics from mentioned in this short USA Today story, Facebook friends share ’25 Things’ with the world, were interesting. (Emphasis added)

“If you are a member of the 150-million-strong Facebook nation, you have probably learned some fascinating — or, let’s face it, some not-so-fascinating — facts about your friends as part of the latest fad, the pass-it-forward viral game “25 Random Things About Me.”
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The phenomenon continues to snowball. Facebook can’t quantify activity specific to 25 Things as it does applications such as Flixster. But spokeswoman Brandee Barker says that over the past week the number of daily “notes” has more than doubled and the number of daily tags of a Facebook member in a note has grown by five times. “I would say that anecdotally I’ve never seen a note spread as quickly as this has on Facebook,” Barker says. “What is really unique about this is it’s a really meaningful piece of content. Some of the these notes are touching and frankly very insightful.”

Yesterday’s NYT also had a story on the fad, Ah, Yes, More About Me? Here Are ‘25 Random Things’.

As internet fads go, it probably has not yet peaked. Possible evidence is that there isn’t a Wikipedia article on the phenomenon yet, or even a mention of it on the its List of Internet Phenomena. So there is still time to get in and be cool.

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