Interesting tidbit from betanews.com:
During 2009, nearly 13 billion of these status updates were posted, and Facebook has released its “Top Status trends of 2009,” indicating just what was on people’s minds.
The top status update trend was “Facebook Applications,” which includes automatic posts made by the hugely annoying Farmville game from Xynga. This game proved to be extremely popular this year, and has 72 million monthly active users. This application prompts users to post numerous status updates which aid other players of the game, and helps them progress faster.
But because this isn’t exactly an active post made by users, it’s the second place that is most interesting: FML.
FML is a shorthand expression for “F*** my Life” which is usually tacked onto the end of a description of something bad that has happened to the speaker. It is most effectively employed in situations with ironic or ridiculous outcomes.
