1. I think I’ve seen this chain email before. Yep… yes… I have. Don’t a bunch of orphans get sacrificed if I don’t forward this to enough people?

2. I’m kind of anti-social.

Ok, so I never tried this.

I just don’t get it and it’s annoying.

God, I agree with you completely.

And Liz, I didn’t mean doing the meme made you less tech-savvy, I just meant non-tech-savvy people are frequently doing it, so something like tagging isn’t likely to be understood in the same way as a tech-savvy crowd would see it.

And is someone really going to be irritated with you for not doing it? I definitely wouldn’t. Also, I didn’t follow the directions well, because I tagged people who I wrote about in the note. I didn’t tag 25 people because I assumed 25 random people wouldn’t care. But I thought that some of the people I did write about, and then some of my closest friends/family who also had participated, might care to read it. I guess in my mind, tagging them doesn’t necessarily obligate anyone to read it, and if they didn’t want to, big deal.

Although I do agree with many of the things you said, Mykl. And I normally ignore most application requests and other notes I see. So I don’t really know what motivated me to participate… hm.

It’s probably worth noting that most of the folks taking part in this thing aren’t your typical bloggers. They don’t blog (or rarely blog), so they don’t have an outlet for this sort of thing. 25 Things comes along, and hey, that sounds like fun.

It’s also worth noting that the popularity of it kills some of your arguments. “It’s hard work,” “It’s not how you use Facebook,” “It takes too much time,” yet 5 million people have done it.

Also, the general population of Facebook isn’t exactly very tech savvy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the tagging feature in Notes used for what its original intention–it’s almost always used as a way to get people to read what you wrote. I tagged you, therefore you should read it. Dumb? Yes. But that’s just how Facebookers use it.

The masses have spoken.