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Chances are you've been hit by the "25 Random Things" virus on Facebook, in which you get tagged in a note written by someone you know (or easily don't) that lists 25 pieces of information you probably didn't already know about the person. It's quickly become a very popular meme -- even written up in the New York Times -- and one we're pretty sure is the first exclusively homegrown thing to go viral on Facebook (and we're only excluding Scrabulous because it's an application).

Having essentially grown up online, some of us Urlbots are perplexed by the "25 Things" meme that has become so massively popular as of late. Perhaps it's because we're of the generation that already utilized our LiveJournals for the exact purpose of reinforcing our wholly branded personalities (we're millennials, guys, it's what we do), as we just assumed everyone already wanted to know our "secrets." Thing is, we were barely legal then, so the fact that so many fully grown adults are eagerly broadcasting these lists with the apparent intention of appearing especially interesting is a little bit confusing to us.

And more importantly, wasn't this essentially the basis of every other chain letter you received between 1995 and 2000?

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