There’s something going on Facebook today.

Load up the site. You’ll see a bunch of people’s status messages saying this:

No one should die because they cannot afford healthcare, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.

The phenomenon is widespread and entirely grassroots:

Watching the trend, which I have yet been unable to quantify (though have put in a question to the folks at Facebook), what amazes me is not only the size of the viral movement (it appears to be in the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands) but rather the faces behind it. While the vast majority of the political organizing I see on Facebook tends to come from the same names — friends working in politics on a full time basis — what is remarkable here is that these status updates containing a strong and clear message in favor of healthcare reform are coming not only from the political community but also from those whose lives are not immersed in these fights. These are regular young people, all around the country, speaking out in favor of reform. This movement is impressive and surprising, and, at least from this vantage, quite newsworthy.

It’s nice to see young people getting in on the act, and people who aren’t involved in politics. And it’s amazing because nobody I’ve talked to seems to know where it came from or how it started. It just took off.

If you’re on Facebook (or Twitter), join in.