Why Soccer Dominates Facebook Status Updates
Soccer dominates Facebook's rankings of the top sports themes in status updates, reminding us of how global the social network really is.
While the U.S. accounts for about a quarter of Facebook’s 800 million users, American sports teams and athletes had a smaller showing on the list of the top status update themes this year.
Only one of the top ten teams mentioned in status updates is from the U.S., the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. The rest were soccer teams.
And only three of the top ten athletes are from the U.S., basketball’s Michael Jordan, plus Kobe Bryant and wrestler John Cena.
While I recognize how popular soccer is across the world, it still caught me a bit off guard to see this since all I hear about, both on ESPN and on my news feed, is the NFL’s Tim Tebow and the NBA.
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