Hi there! It’s Dmitry. I’m still into new things and I’m about digging into some LikeHacks today. It’s memes to be specific. Internet memes? Guess we can call it that way too lol.

As we (the team) are working on a service that’s about making sense of social sharing of noticeable and important things on the Web, we love to sit back and speculate on some topics that’s been up on the charts for a while. We do this in order to understand our clients better. So I’m on some memes today. Deal with it.

According to Urbandictionary (the trustworthiest source for the topic), meme (noun):

An idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media).

Get it? Seems like we’re dealing with some kind of Cartesian coordinate system today.

Meme as a service? Meh. I’m talking about the same thing I brought up in one of my previous posts on lolcats – we seem to be using memes as some kind of universal tool or language allowing us to express ideas and thoughts, react on news and events, convey our description and understanding of things.

But why memes? That’s a good question to provide a point of view on. I’m not going to claim the right on complete understanding of it but it seems like the answer is somewhere between “fast penetration” and “universal broadcast”. I’m talking about the way memes allow us to break almost any cultural barriers and plug right into the mindset of their creators that’s been enriching this universal alphabet for quite a while. Recognizing memes is not a problem today as they get up to the tipping point in an instant and becoming some kind of viral firewood that keeps pushing such locomotives like Reddit and Twitter much further than one could’ve thought at least 5-6 years ago.

What’s next? Let’s roll with it. Let’s lol with it. Let’s see how far we can go with it, jackals. Here’s a couple of memes I’ve picked up just for you:

• Lolcats
• Rickrolling
• This is Sparta
• All Your Base Are Belong To Us
• Oolong the Pancake Rabbits
• The “O RLY?” Owl
• Leeroy Jenkins
• It’s Over Nine Thousand
• Epic Fail
• Loituma Girl

All these have been created, posted and brought up to the top of the world by you. The beauty of it is that we’re self-diagnosed by memes. They show us who we are. This can be applied to everything that we’re calling social networking today. The new way of defining ourselves and the ones that surround us. Way of the future?