As google release their annual , and many other sites prepare interesting stats on web usage, facebook have today done the same and released an fascinating insight into the top facebook status update topics of 2009:
While they have obviously post-processed the data quite a lot (just as everyone else does), it’s not clear just how useful this data is; they’ve separated “movies” and “sports” into their own categories, but “Lady Gaga” gets a whole slot to herself – why not “music” I wonder?
“Years” really should be called “Dates”, and “Yard” – well, although their blog post claims that yard is incredibly popular due to the “moms and dads” of the “hipsters” who are tending their yards, a cynic might suggest that facebook is trying to make themselves look more appealing to the more mature adult population who will be happy to spend their cash in a facebook appstore which I have no doubt is on the horizon for FB.
As normal for these yearly glances we are afforded into the inner workings on the biggest sites on the net, the information is fascinating, but ultimately unfulfilling. Here’s hoping that next year we get a hundred gigabyte download of the top statuses (suitably anonymised of course)!
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via Techcrunch
#1 by kabz on January 2, 2010 - 10:21 pm
how do i get my inbox history back? i have accidently deleted it. i want to get all my last years messages back!!!