Facebook's Most Popular Status Updates Of 2011

What do Osama Bin Laden, Megan Fox, Harry Potter, House, Rihanna, Leo Messi, FC Barcelona, and CNN have in common? They all sit atop lists revealed by Facebook in its 2011 Memology analysis of status updates.

What do Osama Bin Laden, Megan Fox, Harry Potter, House, Rihanna, Leo Messi, FC Barcelona, and CNN have in common? They all sit atop lists revealed by Facebook in its 2011 Memology analysis of status updates.

Nearly one year ago, we published the top 10 global topics in Facebook status updates from the social network’s 2010 Memology, and not a single one made a repeat appearance.

Here is the 2011 list, followed by the 2010 list, for comparison.

2011 Top 10 Global Topics on Facebook

  1. Death of Osama Bin Laden
  2. Packers win the Super Bowl
  3. Casey Anthony found not guilty
  4. Charlie Sheen
  5. Death of Steve Jobs
  6. The Royal Wedding
  7. Death of Amy Winehouse
  8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  9. Military operations begin in Libya
  10. Hurricane Irene

2010 Top 10 Global Memes On Facebook

  1. HMU (hit me up)
  2. World Cup
  3. Movies (Toy Story 3, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Inception, Alice in Wonderland, and Iron...
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