Facebook Reveals the Biggest Trends of 2012
The trifecta is complete. On Wednesday, Facebook revealed the most talked-about events on the social network for 11 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Australia and France. After Twitter and Google summarized what everyone has been tweeting about and searching for this year, Facebook has followed suit with its "Year in Review 2012." Like Google, the one-billion strong social network has broken down the most popular subjects into categories and countries, although there's no summary that covers the entire world. If you've spent much time on the internet this year the results won't be much of a surprise.
Timeline has had a year to weave into our collective consciousness, Facebook is using it to show all the personal highlights of the past 12 months that it deems worthy, such as job changes, new friends and the many photos that reached our news feeds.
In the United States, the biggest event of the year on Facebook was the presidential election, followed by the Superbowl and the death of Whitney Houston, while the most check-ins came from Times Square, New York. The top three books are all from The Hunger Games series, and Instagram was the most talked-about technology topic. Facebook lists "TBH" as the most popular meme of the year, followed by "YOLO." You can check up on all of the statistics over at Facebook Stories.
The London Olympics were the top trend in the U.K. and, somewhat amusingly, the book 50 Shades of Grey was the biggest trend on Facebook in Australia.
Facebook also listed out the most popular songs and checkins on the social network for each country, as well as the most popular memes, movies, most-read books and more for the U.S in particular.
The top song in the U.S. was "We Are Young" by Fun, the top check-in was Times Square in New York and the top three books were all from the Hunger Games series.
Aside from providing lists, the social network is also giving users the option to see a list of their 20 biggest moments of the year on Facebook. You just have to login into your account, and you'll see the option to do that.
Want so see more? Take a look at: http://www.facebookstories.com/2012
Images are a courtesy of Facebook

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