Ever wondered what are the top terms on status updates posted by Facebook users? Now we will all know as Facebook releases its inaugural Facebook Memology, a yearly list of the top trending memes or ideas.

Given the 300 million Facebook users and high percentage of active accounts sharing hundreds of millions of updates everyday, there's high volume of terms digested by Facebook Data, grouping the related topics and ranking them altogether to come up with this list.

The report found out that while people often share about celebrities and related entities (movies, deaths), but they also share personal topics related to family, and religion. Please note that the list below aren't the exact terms people use, but are the ideas of individual status messages.

1. Facebook Applications

The popularity of FarmVille, FarmTown and other Facebook applications have propelled this type of meme to the top. FarmVille's 72 million active users is reason enough for the top ranking of Facebook applications.

2. FML

Refers to "F" My Life (you can pick what F stands for). When students were into final exams or typical Facebook users enter the first day of working week, this digital slang seemed to pick up.

3. Swine Flu

The term, along with H1N1, is often part of social conversations in Facebook. The surge in usage trend takes place during fall which is the flu season.

4. Celebrity Deaths

The death of Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Billy Mays and probably that of Brittany Murphy's contributed to the popularity of this meme.

5. Family

Family-related status updates come from a variety of topics, so their usage trend is pretty much widespread throughout the year.

6. Movies

New movie releases often spawn Facebook discussions. But the ones that generated much buzz were "Harry Potter", "Transformers", "Star Trek," "The Hangover" and "Paranormal Activity" but the recent release of "New Moon" happens to be the most discussed of all 2009 so far.

7. Sports Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl and New York Yankees won the World Series thereby putting the two as the most talked about sports teams. In terms of trending, mentions of Steelers was sharp after playing the solitary Super Bowl game. It's much sharper than mentions of Yankees on any given day. However, Yankees played a series of matchups so the mention was more widespread.

8. Health Care This occurence is due to the millions of Facebook updates that mention "No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day." over Obama's health reform agenda. The trend seems to pick up the moment the new American President took office.

9. FB

This trend has something to do with any Facebook update or mentions of Facebook friends. Facebook's introduction of news feeds prompted millions of reactions which include "FB" and their rants in the update. An entirely different topic is "FB friends" which also uses the "FB" term.

10. Twitter

Twitter and RT were among the terms most often used under this category. The introduction of Twitter spawned the keyword "RT" which refers to retweet or forwarding of a Twitter update.

11. Years

The trend refers to the years in which people talked about plans for the future (2010 and beyond) or history (2008 or earlier), but perhaps the movie 2012 may have inadvertently been classified into this category.

12. Lady Gaga

Being the biggest new performer of the year, Lady Gaga is often mentioned within Facebook updates. Her popular songs and eccentric personality have definitely kept people talking.

13. Yard

The term comes as the most unexpected in this list, with not much common topic apart from the possibility that Facebook users have parents who have joined the social networking giant who are supposed to tend to their backyard.

14. Religion

Easter, Lord, God are have more mentions this year than last's.

15. I

When Facebook removed the "is" prefix understood to be the beginning of an update, a rise in the use of "I" to refer to first person's account of an update. From "[is] going to Super Bowl" to "I am going to Super Bowl" Why do we track this and what's the impact of knowing these top terms? By looking at these topics, we can identify -- albeit very generic -- what people are talking about and can think of how to make the most of this. For advertisers, these are hints that help them target customers or determine if Facebook is the appropriate place to place ads.

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