Facebook friends share ’25 Things’ with the world
Mike Snider, USA Today, February 5, 2009

Facebook is great for sharing and keeping in touch with friends and family. As I’ve said in another post, I enjoy it very much. Some of the “chain-lists”, though, are yawn-inducing time-wasting drivel. I usually abstain. But when I was “tagged” by no less than six-people on “25 Random Things About Me” notes, I thought perhaps I should make an exception to my rule. It’s fun to learn things about people you think you know or whom you would like to know better.

Coming up with 25 things was not easy and required a long trip down Memory Lane. However, now that I’ve posted my own note I wish I could amend other random bits to my list.

I was hanging out with Kirsten this morning reading newspapers and came across an article in USA Today by Mike Snider. He gives an overview of the “25 Things” phenomenon and offers some good advice…

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.

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