Facebook Top 10 Status Updates For 2010

Global  Facebook 2010 Top 10 Status Updates

1. HMU: ( Hit me up )

2. World Cup( Soccer World Cup )

3. Movies (Toy Story 3, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Inception, Alice in Wonderland, Iron Man 2)

4. iPad and iPhone 4 ( Apple's shiny new PYT

5. Haiti ( Earthquake)

6. Justin Bieber ( do you need to know anything ?)

7. Facebook Games (Barn Raising )

8. Mineros (the Chilean miners)

9. 'Airplanes' (B.o.B. song)

10. 2011 (  star sign, horoscope, looking forward a better year, new year wishlist, Ecards ) 

Facebook has unveiled its top status trends of 2010 and highlighted just how much the social networking site is dominated by teenagers, movies, with 'HMU' - that's 'hit me up', to the uninitiated - taking the number one spot. Tech and  gadgets with iphone 4  and ipad   were among the most" discussed " conversation across facebook.

The Shorthand of Hit me Up ( HMU ) was the real suprise in 2010 facebook trends. In early 2009, the acronym HMU was virtually unheard of. But in HMU it became big enough to be featured as number one trends in Facebook

Whether looking for something to do or just getting off work, people began to add "HMU" to their status updates when they were ready to meet their friends. Standing for "hit me up," the acronym was barely used last year but grew suddenly and steadily throughout 2010, especially during summer breaks and weekends.


As Facebook Explains  about the slang HMU status  update 
By May, 2009  HMU grew  slowly and was averaging about 20 posts a day. The volume roughly doubled every month, and by the end of 2009 it had risen to 1,600 posts a day–too modest of a number to be on our radar for last year’s list.

However HMU continued to grow aggressively throughout 2010, increasing by about 75 percent each month. By the end of summer, HMU reached 80,000 mentions per day.In September this changed, as usage rates started going through huge swings from day to day. The reason? Before September the demographic most likely to ask their friends to "HMU" was on summer break and looking to hang out most nights. Then many of these folks headed back to school, and HMU became a weekend-oriented request.

The story of the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days captivated the world. People globally watched the truly inspiring story unfold as they were rescued one by one after an unimaginable time underground.

Facebook Status Trends for 2010  included status updates across 236 countries. Each phrase was computed the rate at which each phrase occurred in 2010 and compared that to 2009, looking for ones that had increased by both a large percentage and a large volume (view last year's list). All personally identifiable information was removed from the status updates to  conclude the " Top 10 facebook status updates for 2010.

When the words and phrases we analyzed related to each other, we grouped them into categories for the global list that follows. 
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/850407-facebook-status-trends-of-the-year-did-you-know-what-hmu-stood-for#ixzz1AT5Fk014movies