Now this has just gotten ridiculous.

Facebook.
Essentially everyone has one, whether it's for "work" or your friends physically forced you into one or you just love wasting hours of time on Tetris and Jetman, nearly everyone I know (in all my white, middle class, urban glory) has got a Facebook. When they don't, the average reaction is shock, horror, and fear, because wow someone doesn't have Facebook and how do they keep in touch/what do they do in their spare time and they're probably an alien/OMG they R not trendy. So yeah, Facebook is ridiculous in that you can spend hours simply scrolling through pages, stalking and information downloading as your brain is at the OFF switch, but as of, well, right now according to mine, but others may be further ahead, Facebook has reached its highest level of ridiculous-ness.
Facebook is starting trends. No, not like the whole "thong well above waistline so that it looks painful" trend, trends that are specifically formatted for Facebook and that in a sweeping fashion deteriorate your friends list as each person succumbs to the awesome power that it electronic peer pressure. Facebook has become the silent killer of social independence.
Applications can probably be blamed as the beginning of what will come to be known as the Facebook-Assertive Social Trend Movement, otherwise known as FAST-Move., a term that I will have no problem taking full credit with its coinage. Applications were a secret kind of peer pressure, because in order to be your average nosey self and see exactly what your friends results on quizzes were, or write snarky, but "honest" comments about them, you needed to add the same application. Before long, your page was polluted with boxes, the smog of the applications hiding your Wall from those who just wanted to say, "hey, wassup?".
Then the applications thing died off; people got tired of it. We all kept our favorites and staggered out into the light of the screen left blank by the vacation of the boxes.
Recently, "25" has taken over. First it was just one person filling it out - they tagged their friends. Not to be outdone, their friends all boasted 25 "interesting" things about themselves. Soon every time you logged on someone had creted a new 25 note and ANOTHER 25 people had been tagged. The competition of coming up with a witty title sprang up, as people declared "Oh, sigh, I guess I'll do it too". Really, how many people can write 25 original things about themselves? Facebook's answer: a lot. Finally, it's starting to die down, it's just the peope being 'ironic' and filling it all out with false answers (who takes 45 minutes just to do that, I ask you?!) and those that log on maybe once a month finally getting around to publishing their own note.
Now, Facebook has gone one step further. Mr. Men and Little Miss. Remember those books from our childhoods? My favorites were always Little Miss Bossy, Little Miss Chatterbox, and Little Miss Quick... hmm. Revealing. Well, these loveable little nonsense characters have made a huge comeback. As Facebook's latest trend. People have begun to post them as their profile pictures, tagging their friends as whichever Mr. Man or Little Miss they find them to be. It's only happend to a few on my friends list so far, but I foresee it coming through and knocking out the friends list once again.
Facebook has become the YouTube of this year - people are no longer going to become famous because of what hilarious videos they come up with for YouTube, but because of what trends they start on Facebook, or something that has not yet been invented for Facebook. The power this one website has is both ridiculous and terrifying.
Oh, and as for myself, I broke and wrote my only 25 things, in a non-ironic way. However, I REFUSE to make a ridiculous profile picture. At least, maybe not this week.