Remember when we didn’t have computers in our homes and we had to rely on the news broadcast at the end of the year to remind of us what was big during that year?  These days, it’s social networking that lets us know what everyone is talking about…

Most Mentioned Topics of 2009 on Twitter:

• News Events
  1. #iranelection
  2. Swine Flu
  3. Gaza
  4. Iran
  5. Tehran
  6. #swineflu
  7. AIG
  8. #uksnow
  9. Earth Hour
  10. #inaug09
• People
  1. Michael Jackson
  2. Susan Boyle
  3. Adam Lambert
  4. Kobe (Bryant)
  5. Chris Brown
  6. Chuck Norris
  7. Joe Wilson
  8. Tiger Woods
  9. Christian Bale
  10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)
• Movies
  1. Harry Potter
  2. New Moon
  3. District 9
  4. Paranormal Activity
  5. Star Trek
  6. True Blood
  7. Transformers 2
  8. Watchmen
  9. Slumdog Millionaire
  10. G.I. Joe
• Television Shows
  1. American Idol
  2. Glee
  3. Teen Choice Awards
  4. SNL (Saturday Night Live)
  5. Dollhouse
  6. Grey’s Anatomy
  7. VMA’s (Video Music Awards)
  8. #bsg (Battlestar Galatica)
  9. BET Awards
  10. Lost
• Sports
  1. Super Bowl
  2. Lakers
  3. Wimbledon
  4. Cavs (Cleveland Cavaliers)
  5. Superbowl
  6. Chelsea
  7. NLF
  8. UFC 100
  9. Yankees
  10. Liverpool
• Technology
  1. Google Wave
  2. Snow Leopard
  3. Tweetdeck
  4. Windows 7
  5. CES
  6. Palm Pre
  7. Google Latitude
  8. #E3
  9. #amazonfail
  10. Macworld
• Hash Tags
  1. #musicmonday
  2. #iranelection
  3. #sxsw
  4. #swineflu
  5. #nevertrust
  6. #mm
  7. #rememberwhen
  8. #3drunkwords
  9. #unacceptable
  10. #iwish

(Source: Twitter blog)

Top Facebook Status Trends of 2009:

1. 1. Facebook Applications
   2. FML
   3. Swine Flu
   4. Celebrity Deaths
   5. Family
   6. Movies
   7. Sports
   8. Health Care
   9. FB
   10. Twitter
   11. Years
   12. Lady Gaga
   13. Yard
   14. Religion
   15. I

(Source: Facebook)

Here is a cool video showing 2009 in a Google Wave:

(Photo courtesy aranarth’s Flickr photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelaypablo/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Twitter