Facebook Users Appear To Be Over Swine Flu Hysteria

Last week Facebook released swine flu maps which tracked the domestic swine flu hysteria. While the geographic maps provided little insight, Facebook lexicon has been tracking the volume of discussion and it appears that swine flu hysteria is beginning to die down. Not surprisingly, CNN.com has stopped posting about the “deadly swine flu” as it was clearly affecting the country’s ability to function properly.

Many journalists claim that the coverage was not excessive. As Reuters points

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