2012 Top Trending Stories

2012 Yearend Roundup Marathon: Top Trending News Stories

There are a lot of things that happened this year that left a mark. Here’s my top picks countdown: 

10. The impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona who was been convicted and removed from office; a one of a kind in the Philippine history. And yeah, the hospital arrest of former president Gloria Arroyo. Also, the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro between the Philippine Government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front. And of course, the ending of the world on December 21, 2012.  

9. Major calamities that injured the Philippines. An earthquake with a magnitude of around 6.9 in Negros and Cebu and a thousand aftershocks in a month. People thought there would be a tsunami. And after days and/or weeks, there were even scattered non-related quakes in the country like the magnitude 7.9 undersea quake in eartern Philippines which caused landslides, damage on buildings and highways. And the Typhoon Pablo with International name Bopha hits Southern Philippines with major damages at Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental which killed a thousand people with a thousand homeless.

8. The Philippines was shocked about the illness and the death of the King of Comedy Dolphy and the plane accident of DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo.

7. Another Filipino act, Jessica Sanchez won as runnerup on the American Idol Season 11. And also Binibining Pilipinas-Universe Janine Tugonon was hailed Miss Universe 2012 1st runner-up.

6. The third party syndrome in Philippine TV and movies. After the hit of No Other Woman came The Mistress and A Secret Affair with third party themed television series like Temptation of a Wife, Two Wives and many more others which makes mistresses famous these days.

5. The canonization of the second Filipino saint, Pedro Calungsod at the Vatican City. And the tagged as "A Wedding Like No Other" by nuptials Carmina Villaruel and Zoren Legaspi.

4. The defeat of the Pound for pound King Pacman against Bradley in the controversial split decision and his sensational knockout against Marquez in their fourth fight. But The Filipino Flash knocked-out Arce which uplifts our boxing pride and is ESPN's Boxer of the Year.

3. The Cybercrime Prevention Act was put into law with netizens expressing their protests and Anonymous Philippines hacking government websites.

2. #Sottocopy and #Sinotto buzzed Twitter trending topics for Tito Sotto's plagiarism act during a speech on RH Bill issue. Also, the #Amalayer hashtag on Paula Salvosa vs. LRT guard incident goes viral with parodies.

1. Korean rapper Psy’s Gangnam Style became a nationwide dance craze uplifting the Korean pop music around the globe which also hit a billion views in youtube over Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe which was the much-parodied single this year.

Oppa gangnam style heyo sexy lady…. oh oh oh....

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Bad Rumor: Facebook Ends 3/15/11

The truth about the rumor that Facebook will end on March 15, 2011...

“Facebook has gotten out of control and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness. I personally don’t think it’s a big deal. And to be honest, I think it’s for the better. Without Facebook, people will have to go outside and make real friends. That’s always a good thing. I don’t care about the money. I just want my old life back.” – Mark Zuckerberg quoted on a claimed interview. 

Facebook will end on March 15, 2011 – this is one freaking prank report! It became a hot topic beginning of the year of the metal rabbit, in January. No one knew how the rumor started but the hot item spread too fast that almost all the top social networking were discussing such and crying out that it should not be done. It even became a top trend in Google searches.

The report said that Facebook will shut down. They are not taking any day off; not even the social network will undergo system maintenance but will end completely forever. This sounds very alarming and disturbing to the more than 500 million Facebook users. 

I’m not quite certain on what’s going to happen if without Facebook in the open web. What will happen to those thousands of friends and many more other friend requests? There are no more status updates. Nothing to read on wall posts. Not even photos and videos from family and friends. 

Facebook has been a part of the many lives of the netizens or the internet citizens for quite some time now when by the time it all started. Facebook Corporation even allegedly announced that all users have to retrieve all of their links including photos, videos, notes, and the like for its total shutdown.

I think Mark Zuckerberg cannot afford to lose Facebook. He made billions of dollars from it and he’ll suddenly shut it down because he’s not anymore interested to it? No way! March 15 2011, the day the supposed termination of Facebook, but the day has past and nothing happened to Facebook. 

This means that the one who spread the news has had nothing to do. He just wanted his/her item to hit the internet searches and be talked about. Well, he successfully made it. It was discussed many times already and even until today.

But what do you think will happen if Facebook will really end soon? Will you agree with such idea?