Earlier this month, a friend handed off a Facebook challenge
to me. It read:
I’ve been challenged.
Day __ of __ -- seven days, seven photos of your everyday life. No people, no comments, and tag someone to join in each day.
Day __ of __ -- seven days, seven photos of your everyday life. No people, no comments, and tag someone to join in each day.
I had mixed feelings about this. I had seen my buddy going
through this exercise on his page: he’s a stage and voice actor based in the
Seattle area I had “met” online in a Harlan Ellison fan group on Usenet ’way
back in the mid 1990s when he lived in Albuquerque. We’ve met in person several times since, both in Seattle and Portland. It crossed my mind that he
might tap me to do this too.
My suspicion was that, like so many other tag-a-friend
activities on Facebook over the years, this one had originated as the bright
idea of some faceless staffer at Facebook corporate HQ in Menlo Park,
California. These pretend to be spontaneous, grassroots ideas that just plain
folks came up with to do with their friends for fun, but that probably wasn’t
the initial impetus.
The goal is to drive up clicks, shares, and activity in
general, so Facebook’s gross traffic numbers continue to climb and the social
media giant can charge advertisers more money because (in theory) more eyes are
encountering their ads.
If you’ve been active on Facebook a while, you’ve seen a lot
of these. Back in 2009 and 2010, it was lists:
The rules: Don’t take too long to think
about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the
first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends,
including me, because I’m interested in seeing what albums my friends choose.
To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new
note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people in the note.
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