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Most Popular Facebook Status Updates

Posted Dec 22, 2009. Filed under Web, Social Networking, Facebook. Leave a comment?

During 2009, nearly 13 billion status updates were posted by Facebook’s 350 million active users. Recently, Facebook has released “Top Status trends of 2009,” showing exactly what is on people’s minds.

The most popular? Automatic status updates related to Xynga’s Farmville. The game continuously prompts users to post status updates involving everything from a lost cow up for adoption to the player’s recent level up.

Next on the list is FML. If you’ve ever been to http://www.fmylife.com/ you know exactly what this status means. If you’ve never been, you need to go now. It’s hysterical, and possibly my favorite site. Anyways, although kind of funny it’s sad that the first real status update on the list is such a negative one. Really the top three real status updates are negative (FML, Swine Flu, Celebrity Deaths).

However, number five and beyond are slightly more positive including family, sports and Lady Gaga.

Image from Betanews

It’s great to see the general consensus of Facebook users, however is this a move copied from Twitter? I’m thinking it is.