I never take memes such as 25 random things to be requests for an essential summary of who you are. it's just another topic to write about. Some people do well with these topics. Most don't.
I take the memes as opportunities to broaden your online self-portrait with a collection of non-essential details that you might not otherwise have a context to write about.
I take them as opt-in. Nobody's forcing you. And whether you do or not won't make much difference to anything.
Karoli
· 11 months ago
Exactly. If I sounded critical of that particular meme, it's because when someone asks me to do something, my first instinct is to do it. But hey, I could like shamelessly and tell people 25 things that are utter nonsense. Me being me, I'd be more likely to do the opposite and disclose too much. The point is that those memes are an opportunity for some to shape a persona, an image, that's either more or less than who they are.
bbluesman
· 11 months ago
I've been tagged several times and this meme just struck me as vapid. Anyway some love oranges others apples. Nice mask!
Karoli
· 11 months ago
Thanks, it's Miss Dancer's entry to her school art show last year. :) I think the 25 things meme is okay for people who can actually think of 25 things...that's an awful lot of meaningless trivia to figure out.
bbluesman
· 11 months ago
Kind of please put yourself in 140 characters or less 4me. Kthxbai.
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I take the memes as opportunities to broaden your online self-portrait with a collection of non-essential details that you might not otherwise have a context to write about.
I take them as opt-in. Nobody's forcing you. And whether you do or not won't make much difference to anything.