After Saturday’s shocking shooting in Tucson, millions of people turned to Facebook to discuss what happened and share their reactions, and even now status updates addressing the issue go up at least once every second. Sarah Palin became part of the controvery because of her “rifle-sight” maps against Democrats, which were available on her Facebook profile until her staff pulled the content shortly after the tragedy occurred. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook’s second annual “memology” study is upon us, and while world news held a strong presence (along with an unintentionally divisive pop star), ultimately the most repeated word across status updates was…. an acronym.
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According to the latest craze on Facebook, this site’s editor is “the most amazing person alive with a huge penis”. Shocked? Don’t be as that’s what the latest craze on Facebook is all about. After the success of Facebook Bra Color week and Doppelgäanger week, we now have the Urban Dictionary week.
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This afternoon Facebook announced a new product called Memology which tracks the most popular status trends of the year. Rather than aggregating the most popular keywords alone, as Google does in their annual Zeitgeist, Facebook has decided to group status updates into various topics. All of the most popular topics are listed in the Memology chart below.
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