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Put on a funny face

Recently, on Facebook, we’ve seen status changes for breast cancer, profile pictures of celebrity doppelgangers and an influx of newborn baby photos. (Seriously, people: In the delivery room?!) But the most baffling trend is a rash of group-joining and page-fanning. Facebookers aren’t just congregating to toast the new Vampire Weekend album or debate whether “Avatar” or “The Hurt Locker” should win Best Picture. Instead, they’re flocking to superfluous, meaningless pages like “When I Hear Myself Eating Crunchy Food I Wonder If People Can Hear It Too.” At last count, more than 1 million crunchers have declared themselves fans.

“If someone creates a page like that, there’s someone else out there that’s going to say, ‘Hey, I can relate to that. I’ve wondered the same thing,’” says Emily Liebert, author of “Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit.” “So they join to establish that connection and also because they think it’s funny and will ‘identify’ them in a certain way — whether there’s a tangible benefit or not.”

That’s the thing. What gives, exactly, beyond the fact that some are LOL-worthy and the fact that — just like in high school — everybody’s doing it. Here, in no particular order, are our 10 favorite Facebook pages and groups and how many followers they had as of press time:

* Can This Poodle Wearing a Tinfoil Hat Get More Fans Than Glenn Beck: 255,434 fans (Beck has 695,357 fans)

* When I Was Younger I Put My Face Close to the Fan to Make a Robot Noise: 925,742 fans

* I Only Check My Voicemail to Get Rid of the Little Icon on the Screen: 2,507,272 fans

* Can This Goat Get More Fans Than Barack Obama? 309,198 fans (Obama has 7,688,593 fans)

* I Was Gonna Post a Status, Then I Remembered I Have Family on Facebook: 339,290 members

* I Look to Make Sure the ‘L’ and ‘R’ Headphones Go in the Right Ears: 214,427

members

* I Used to Cover My Hands in Glue at School Just So I Could Peel It Off: 303,320 members

* I Will Go Out of My Way to Step on a Leaf That Looks Particularly Crunchy: 1,883,383 fans

* If I Step on a Leaf That Looks Crunchy and It Isn’t Crunchy, I Get Sad: 137,465 members

* I Read the Group Name, I Laugh, I Join, I Never Look At It Again: 500,221

members (and counting)