Memes

Lately, I have noticed that there are a lot of memes going around on facebook.  I don't even know when they started or where they came from but it seems like they just started becoming a big deal in the last year or two.  Some of them can be pretty funny but a lot of them are kind of stupid and don't really make any sense.  Anyways, I wanted to find out the definition of a meme so I looked it up on dictionary.com and it says a meme is "a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes." This makes sense to me because the memes that are going around on facebook are pictures, usually of something well-known in popular culture, with a little phrase that people of our culture would find funny.  I don't know if I still fully get the concept of memes, but I just thought I'd share my thoughts on them with you.

This is currently my favorite meme: