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Friday, January 30, 2009

Facebook’s Latest Craze: Tag, You’re It (Repeat 24 More Times)

Well, you knew the kids would eventually get tired of throwing all those sheep and posting drunken pictures of themselves.

Now comes a more sober–but still utterly self-absorbed–new craze on social-networking sites, most especially Facebook of late.

It’s called “25 Random Things.” Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged.

I suddenly miss SuperPoking.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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