Facebook friends share '25 Things' with the world

By Mike Snider, USA TODAY
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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."

Like a mutating chain letter, though more artful and less threatening, 25 Things arrives as a Facebook note from a friend. That friend posts 25 facts about himself and "tags" 25 people and asks them to do the same thing.

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."

Unlike most unsolicited (and unwanted) e-mail chains, 25 Things is usually welcomed. "It's one of my favorite Facebook things," says Pete Hines, vice president of public relations and marketing at Bethesda Softworks. "I've learned a lot about people I've known for a long time and people I only know a little."

A random thing about Pete: "I am one of the least organized people I know. I don't do well with paper, or filing things away, but I am religious about my e-mail inbox."

Should you choose to join in the 25 Random Things craze, media consultant Shelly Palmer recommends that "you shouldn't put anything online that you would not want to see on the front of the newspaper or that you would not want a potential client or your boss to see," says Palmer, whose book Get Digital: Reinventing Yourself and Your Career for the 21st Century Economy is due this spring.

Social networks represent a paradigm shift in communicating. "This is the beginning of what will be a never-ending raft of social network games like this," he says.

How true. Already appearing in Facebook pages is a new note: "A Bunch of Questions — Share."

THURSDAY COMEDY CORNER (2/5) : HARDEST $H*T IN THE WORLD

By Tyler Dirton

The following are some of the things I think are the hardest shit in the world to do! Enjoy, comment, be good!

Opening a new CD

Not looking directly at a chicks titties when they bounce everytime she says a consonant

Talk to your mom on the phone while you're high, Mom: "Hey baby, how was class today?" You: "Yea the shoestrings in them joints was too long, so I just decided to tuck them in"

Pull Out

Get your drawers out of your ass in public

To tell someone that they have a white spit wedge in the corner of their mouth

Not to do the Harlem Shake for 3 seconds when you hear "Grindin" by the Clipse

Not to laugh when a grown woman rolls her ankle on the sidewalk

Not to look at the ball of meat on the back of a niggas ear that has encountered a bad earring day

To pour Muhammad Ali some of your Skittles

Thank You

Man Law Monday

No man can have a beard and no mustache

No man can request a blanket

No man can turn up the volume on a love song when riding w/ other men

No man can ask another man to bring him something back from vacation

No man can ask another man what type of lotion he uses

No man can ask who won the Super Bowl

No man can open a phone conversation w/ another man with the phrase, "Whatchu doin?"

No man can ask another man if he wants a spot while doing squats

No man should know what ANTM means

No man can blow on his soup

Thank you

Black Eyed Peas Brother Murdered

The brother of Black Eyes Peas mastermind apl.de.ap, otherwise known as Allan Pineda Lindo, was gunned down in the northern Philippine town of Porac, Pampanga.

Joven Pineda Deala was the youngest and purportedly favorite brother of apl, who was born in the Philippines and grew up in the barrio before he was adopted by an American and moved to the United States, where he eventually formed the Peas with will.i.am.

Per the Philippines Inquirer, Deala, 21, was sitting in his car outside his girlfriend's home at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday when he was shot in the head by an unidentified gunman.

Police are still searching for a suspect and do not yet have a motive for the killing, though various media outlets have reported the murder may have been the result of a love triangle.

Apl, 34, is expected to fly to the Philippines to attend his sibling's wake and burial.

Congratulations Jay Electronica and Erykah Badu

Congratulations to Jay Electronica and Erykah Badu, who just had their first child together, a baby girl.

CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO THE HELL Jay Electronica is

Heartbreak

(Independent America:Rising From Ruins Trailer)

A Day In The Life Of Richard Branson

toke Up

the picture is damaging. Yes. But is there anything wrong with a good rip off the bong. No. Peep the story.

(anyone who can swim half the length of the pool with out coming up for water...is guaranteed to take a good bong pull).