#ramday is a twitter meme started by new twitter friend @thespottedduck. It means Random About Me Day and it is when people tweet (a message to Twitter) a random piece of information about themselves that would not normally come up in conversation.
It has been an interesting way to learn new things about people (and meet new people in general).
Some favorites so far:
- tgwilson: My brother-in-law is married to his stepsister (which she wasn’t when they got married). Figure it out. #ramday
- thegirlriot: @michaelallison #ramday i dated a 23 year old when i was 17.
- michaelallison: I dated a 31-year-old woman when I was 22. #ramday.
- jstorerj: i once drove from Denver to Boston solo, only stopping to fill the car with gas. Just about 2000 miles in 35 hours. #ramday
- RickWolff: When I take eggs from a box, I make sure the remaining eggs balance in the box. Drives my wife nuts; she goes in & messes them up. #ramday
- nwjerseyliz: #ramday I’ve been blonde twice in my life. It didn’t suit me at all but both times I got asked out more than any other time in my life. MEN!
- thespottedduck: in pre-school, i convinced a kid to eat glue. #ramday
Here are my contributions, (yes I do work for a living).
RAMDay was fun, it was amazing the breadth of responses from funny to heartbreaking. There were a few that I thought people had made up but most seemed genuine. I must go through Summize and catch up with those people who participated that I don’t already follow (like I need more people to follow!).
I agreed with TheSpottedDuck that this might be done every few months or quarterly (how about on the solstice/equinox?) because I felt like I purged myself of all random information that I wanted to share…for the moment.
Yeah, I agree. It shouldn’t happen too often or (1) it loses it’s luster and/or (2) pisses off too many non #ramday aficionado’s!
It was exciting to be part of something that caught fire so widely. Just reading the posts as they came in was like witnessing an unrepeatable work of performance art — that you can revisit with the right search parameters. (Unrepeatable for a while, I hope, since I’m fresh out of RAMs!) Someone should do some numbers about the response: number of tweets tagged before Midnight Friday, number of unique tweeters, the hourly peaks.