It’s a common problem. You are having a conversation and suddenly you can’t remember what you were about to say as you get lost in some irrelevant tangential discussion. I’m not sure why but the fan page “Odio olvidarme de lo que iba a decir“, or in English “I hate to forget what I was going to say”, has surged in popularity over the past few days to become one of the fastest growing fan pages on the site.

The fan page is growing at around 60 percent a day, growing from 62,820 fans two days ago to over 130,000 fans as of the time of this post. So what are the fans actually a fan of? I have no idea! The fan page is now among the top 1,500 fan pages on the site and it continues to be growing at a feverish rate. Can you make a fan page about nothing though? I though that’s what Facebook groups are for.

There is actually a group dedicated to the exact same topic but it has 30,000 members. Google suggests that the statement is from a scholarly article by Felisberto Hernández but the page that the quote is cited doesn’t show up in Google. The Wikipedia page about him states that he was a self-taught pianist who is also “one of the greatest yet least known Latin American short-story writers”.

For some reason I don’t think that’s why this page has surged in popularity. Instead, I’d imagine that it happens to be a result of the viral nature of fan pages. Once a couple of your friends become a fan of your page it regularly shows up in your newsfeed. Who out there doesn’t get annoyed when they can’t remember the phrase they were about to say?

As such I think this happens to be a fluke and an improperly placed fan page. If you happen to know why this page is surging in popularity, please let us know!