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If you happened upon Facebook yesterday evening, you may have noticed some rather random looking status messages - colours. Trending topics are something we're used to seeing on Twitter - but for some reason, whoever started this trend (potentially cancer research?), decided to target Facebook - and possibly due to the private messaging capability (and the fact that most of private messages are just that, not a load of spam) . 

But it just shows you what people will do to raise awareness for a good cause - especially around exam time when procrastination is on the top of people's list of things to do! 

A private message was started, and spread incredibly quickly between female facebook users - asking them to put their status as the colour of the bra they were wearing - the fun of it being that the guys wouldn't be able to work it out - some guys even started to post colours in their statuses too, to try and work out what was happening.

So what do you think? Is this the first of many "trending topics" on Facebook - and would this work for other things? If executed slightly better, this could have generated thousands of page views for Cancer Research UK, or indeed any other cancer charity - and potentially lead to more donations. 

p.s. Thanks to Noemi Manalang for her beautiful illustration

Posted by Cat on 07 Jan 10, at 9:52 am

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