What+is+a+meme?

Memes consist of an idea, video, or a story that is communicated and moved from person to person through a blog, podcast, or a video. If the idea is relevant to the present culture, the meme phenomena may become embedded into the culture. I have received evidence of [|memes] before through email. My friends may find something cute and want to share it, so they pass it along. One such meme that always seems to pop up is [|Hampsterdance meme]. Even though it is spelt wrong the dancing hamster shares Christmas with me almost every year. Some examples of former very popular memes can be found on [|The Power of 10]. The three characteristics of a meme help determine if the meme will become part of our culture. The fidelity is how simple the meme is to pass along from person to person. The hamster video meme is quite east to pass along. It doesn't require any application to be downloaded to view it and it doesn't require an in-service to make sense of it. The humorous aspect of the hamster video is that if a person doesn't receive it on his or her email within the school community, well perhaps they aren't a part of the 'in crowd'. Once a person does receive a humorous video within the school community, before he or she can pass it along which is another characteristic of a meme, fecundity, they need to evaluate that the video is non offensive. The final characteristic of a meme is longevity. The Hampsterdance video meme has been around since 1998. It has passed the three characteristics for a meme to become part of our culture.