Many innocent users are getting tagged on Facebook with notes entitled "25 Random Things About Me." When they read the list, they only find that the note is a list of 25 facts by the author and that there was no purpose behind them being tagged. That's a fine trick, but unfortunately the poor writing skills displayed by all my friends' notes drives me up the wall. I'm not referring to misspells, nor grammatical errors, and I'm not even referring to writing style. Everyone makes mistakes in those three fields of writing. I'm referring to logic, and there's no excuse for poor basic logic.

The lists that are written by users don't make logical sense because they claim to contain random facts; Yet they are far from random. Have people forgotten the meaning of "random"? A truly random list about someone would look like the following:

1. I volunteer at a children hospital regularly.
2. The PIN for my bank account is 48293.
3. I killed my neighbour's hamster with hydrogen-peroxide and a pillow.
4. I ate warm tacos on July 8, 2006 at 8:03PM.

The list contains facts that no one wants to reveal, mundane facts, and, yes, even a good fact. A nice distribution of all three types of facts is what I should expect in everyone's lists. Yet, it seems like members only chose to display facts that they find acceptable to reveal (I'm still waiting for a PIN number to turn up).

The game's only rule seems to be to "write down the first thoughts that pops into your mind," which falsely assumes the first 25 would be random. But even if it were considered random, I doubt people do write the first 25, due to the sheer number of positive facts and the void of incriminatory evidence. I'd picture the author's thought process to be similar to the following: "How about bathroom humour? That would be a lame attempt at being funny..I wonder if Julia is reading this? Should I mention the divorce.." Any stream of consciousness that's more interesting would only be fitting for the characters in Mrs.Dalloway. Regardless, how these are considered random facts is beyond me.

Let me put it this way: If I had a machine that could pull out 25 truly random thoughts from you, you'd begin questioning how well you can truly trust me before participating. It would be like taking your diary and pulling out 25 random entries.

I try to understand the breakdown of language that has occurred on internet social networks. It's an evolving language, that's fine with me. But when even the logic is threatened? Logic is what should be developed and built upon. So either change the name of the game or else give me the juicy details.