A Small Question for Users of Social Media

Right now on Facebook, at least in my little corner of it, there’s a bit a viral happy dance racing around. It features a young couple sitting at a table completely deadpan while doing a hand dance on the table. It is a bit of a delight… Sadly, it isn’t on Youtube. The text surrounding it is Cyrillic and so the more likely thing is that it is Russian in origin. But, whatever, I couldn’t track down a version I could cut and paste onto my blog.

The song itself is “We No Speak Americano,” by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP.

How it has appeared on so many facebook accounts does make me think just a little about the viral experience, in that sense which has arisen with social networking. How something just gets picked up and all of a sudden it ’tis ubiquitous.

Dancing babies come to mind.

I had a tiny version of this happen with a recent sermon on Social Justice. Despite the title several Buddhist blogs endorsed it and provided links, and all of a sudden I had an upsurge in hits for me of surprising proportions.

Rhyme?

Reason?

Dumb luck? (And, of course, that begs a question: which kind of luck?)

Certainly in this era of everyone their own publisher, and the varieties of social media (a term that appears to have come into use no earlier than 2007) it does look like everyone has that long promised fifteen minutes of fame at hand.

Okay. So, that small question:

What will you do with yours?

(By the bye, here is a version of “We Speak No Americano” I did find on Youtube…