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A Quantitative Study of How Memes Spread
rememberclifford writes "A survey of about 3,000 people who were tagged in a '25 Random Things About Me' note on Facebook found that memes spread through social networks in a remarkably similar way as diseases do. A biologist who looked at the data says that '"25 Things" authors can be seen as "contagious" under what's known as a "susceptible-infected-recovered" model for the spread of disease,' with a propagation factor of 0.27 in this case. But like an infection, the whole thing died out as quickly as it exploded once the number of 'victims' — people who were willing to write 25 things about themselves — was depleted." The '25 Things' meme was at least as annoying as a light flu.
1. Someone posts something that's funny because it involves shared cultural reference and experience for that community.
2. It gets modded up +5 funny.
3. ???
4. Profit!
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Wait a minute. I think you're trying to start a meme about how to pronounce meme.
I CALL SHENANIGANS!
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1. Never get involved in a land war in Asia
>p>2. Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
What does that have to do with Facebook? Other than the "death" part?
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
If the "25 Things" meme was akin to a light flu, then the damn Soviet Russia meme must be like the virus from 28 Days Later.
I only hope that it too causes the host to eventually die of starvation.
I hate printers.
Mr. Shenanigans is calling from Soviet Russia on line 1.
Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - Ovidius
In Soviet Russia memes spread you!
Apologies. I'll get my coat.