Top 5 Facebook Topics Of 2011

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Top 5 Facebook Topics Of 2011
Top 5 Facebook Topics Of 2011

Top 5 Facebook Topics Of 2011

 

 

With 2011 behind us let’s take a look at the top 5 Facebook Topics of 2011 and some of the notable changes made to the Facebook in 2011.

What were the Top 5 Facebook Topics of 2011?

According to Yahoo! News in October of 2011 there are over half a million comments posted on Facebook every minute.

With more than 800 million users on Facebook at of late, over half a million comments are posted on Facebook every single minute. Over 290,000 status updates are posted to profiles and nearly 140,000 photos are uploaded per minute. At that rate, it would take about 15 minutes of Facebook photos uploads to equal the number of photographs stored in the New York public photo archives. It’s clear that Facebook’s audience has no problem creating astounding amounts of content for the social network.   (Yahoo! News – Click to read the full article).

That’s a lot of information being shared! But what were the top 5 Facebook topics of 2011?

The Top 5 Facebook Topics Of 2011

  1. The Death of Osama Bin Laden
  2. The Green Bay Packers Win The Super Bowl
  3. Casey Anthony Found ‘Not Guilty’
  4. Charlie Sheen
  5. Steve Jobs Death
It’s not surprising that the top 5 most talked about stories on Facebook were some of the most talked about stories of the year. Facebook, Twitter and social media in general have become an excellent source of news and for users to share and comment on the things happening in our world. We are likely to see this become even more of a part of main stream news in 2012.
So what did Facebook do to stay on top of the game in 2011?
Here are a few notable changes that were made to the Facebook platform in 2011.

Redesigned Profiles

Facebook started the year with a new look for profile pages. With Timeline on everyone’s minds now, it can be easy to forget that 12 months ago the social network had redesigned profiles to include more photos and information at a glance, eliminating the horizontal tab structure that had been in place since 2008.

Page Redesign

Page owners got a number of new features to help them manage their communities. These included activity notifications, “Use Facebook as a Page,” and a spam filter for comments. Fan pages were also designed to look more like the new user profiles and place pages, which displayed applications vertically on the left hand side rather than in tabs across the top. Advertisers also gained the option of driving ads to any landing tab, not just the default.

Send Button

The Send button was introduced as a way for people to share articles and third-party websites with groups of friends, whereas the Like button posts to all a users’ friends.

Timeline Goes Live

Facebook began its global release of the Timeline profile developers had gotten a preview of at F8. Timeline is still opt-in for users until sometime in early 2012. The company also debuted Timeline on mobile devices for the first time.

(InsideFacebook.com – Facebook: A Year in Review | Click to read the full article)

Here at Black Box Social Media we’ve seen and covered many of the changes that Facebook has made to their platform, and we’re sure there will be many more in the future.