I received this in my email today.

Greetings! You've just been MEMED on Active Rain!

"WHAT?" you say? Go to this post:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/27305/The-First-ActiveRain-Meme.

and make a comment telling us "What 5 Things You don't Know About Me". OR, put it on your "other blog", but please put a link to it in the comments of the AR Meme Post (link just above here).

Then contact 3 other Active Rainers and meme them!

Just do it. It's fun!

Curious I did it. Basically a chain letter by email. Evidentially is was started by Mary McKnight who is a awesome blogger on this site and others.

The bounteous, beautiful, bubbly, blog goddess Mary McKnight posted today that she'd been "memed". 

What the heck is a "meme"? We'll let Mary explain. She's good:

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I was memed this morning by my friend and competitor, Paul Chaney of Blogging Systems. For those of you that don't know what a meme is: It's a thought stream carried from one person to another, or, to be more precise, a "unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to the other," so says Wikipedia. Basically, it's the blogging equivalent of a chain letter.  The cool thing about blogging is that the meme can be tracked. Entire websites are devoted to doing just that. Some memes, however, are deliberate...sort of a social game to build community and engender relationships. (Jay's emphasis)

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Judging by the comments on Mary's post, there's a lot of us out there who think this is cool.

So why not an AR meme fest? It'd be a great way to get to know each other better.

How do you do it? 

It's EASY. Email THREE Active Rainers (the easiest way is just click the "email me" link under their picture. Or go to their AR profile and click on the link by "Email") Put "YOU'VE BEEN AR MEMED!" in the subject line and copy this into the body of the email.

Actually I've never heard of it but what the heck, I'm up for making new friends during the Christmas Season.