One of the interesting new words that we discussed today in class was on memes, which is pronounced meems and rhymes with dream, which is defined from dictionary.com as a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. The type of meme that has caught my eye is the advertising and marketing meme, that is better known as viral marketing, is the Bert is Evil meme that has a picture of Bert from Sesame Street. Memes have the ability to spread rather quickly like wildfire over a small period of time and they slowly add information from what was originally started.
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