A Quantitative Study of How Memes Spread

Reports have come in which say that memes spreads in the same way through the use of social networking sites in a similar way as diseases do. This was found out after a survey was conducted on Facebook concerning 3000 people who were tagged in an online survey. The survey included all those people who had participated in a “25 Random Things About Me” poll on the social networking site. But contrary to diseases which spread even more faster once it has been initiated, the number in this case dies down quickly when the number of persons who took the poll started depleting.