SMB Technology

Top 10 Facebook trends in 2012

| More

by Keris Lahiff

It’s been a year of big news events and there's no better way to take a trip down memory lane than to examine what the top trending topics were on social networking giant Facebook.

Facebook has released their Facebook Memology 2011, a collection of data which shows the top 10 Facebook status trends for 2011 by country.

In Australia, the top 10 status trends were:

Planking
Cyclone Yasi
Census
Death of Osama Bin Laden
Skrillex
Victorian Floods
Daniel Morcombe
Charlie Sheen
Death of Amy Winehouse
Cadel Evans.

Globally, the top trending topics throughout the year included:

Super bowl XLV in February
Charlie Sheen, including trademark memes ‘winning’, ‘tiger blood’ and ‘goddesses’ in March
Keywords ‘Libya’ and ‘Gaddafi’ surged in March, following the start of UN military operations in the region.
Kate Middleton and Prince William were big news in April, with ‘Royal Wedding’ increasing in frequency 600-fold in the days before the wedding.
Osama bin Laden’s death was the most talked about event on Facebook in 2011, and at the time of his death in early May, almost 10 per cent of English status updates mentioned the news.
The trial of Casey Anthony in July
Amy Winehouse’s death in July
Hurricane Irene hitting the east coast of America in August
Steve Jobs’ death in October
The launch of videogame Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in November.