Friday The 13th Statuses Are Most Popular On Facebook

Status updates about Friday the 13th are going up roughly once every second as of this writing.

Status updates about Friday the 13th are going up roughly once every second as of this writing.

And that’s just a tally of posts set for public visibility — quite possibly the real volume runs much higher when privately shared statuses and comments are included.

The posts lean toward the tongue-in-cheek and outright humorous far more than anything else. We’ve yet to observe any genuinely suspicious postings on the subject.

That said, a fair number of posts are commercial in nature, such as sales specials tied to Friday the 13th, which is interesting given that many a marketer would rather invoke Monday’s Martin Luther King Junior holiday than a date previously associated with bad luck.

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