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Facebook releases trends for 2012; Obama, Hunger Games, Duck Dynasty top lists

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Facebook listed the New York Giants as the most popular sport's story trend in the U.S. for 2012. (Facebook)

Duck Dynasty topped the list of Television trends on Facebook for 2012. (Facebook)

Alabama football player Jesse Williams has the second-ranked Facebook meme for 2012, YOLO, tattooed near his left ear. (abc3340.com)

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Social media giant, Facebook, unveiled its lists of trends and stories for 2012, broken down in several different categories.

For the United States, members can see top 10 trends for categories such as sports, books, movies, events, politics, television and others.

The Hunger Games landed the top-spot in the Books and Movies categories. Just ahead of Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty got top-billing for the most popular Television trend, and Barack Obama ranked first in the Politics category.

The New York Giants were by far the biggest story in the Sports category for 2012, finishing well-ahead of the New England Patriots.

"Facebookers" checked in the most at Times Square in New York City, and TBH ("To Be Honest" Top Meme), that shouldn't come as any surprise. YOLO finished second on the Memes list.

The new feature also gives Facebook members a year-in-review glance of their "20 biggest moments" on their personal timelines, highlighting significant events, statuses, photos and more since January 1, 2012.

You can check it out for yourself at facebookstories.com/2012.

Top story/trend in 2012 for some of the categories:

Click on the categories to see the complete list

Sports: New York Giants

Google and Twitter also released their year-end reports:


Rank	Top Searches	Top Events	Top Images	Top Athletes
1.	Whitney Houston	Hurricane Sandy	One Direction	Jeremy Lin
2.	Gangnam Style	Kate Middleton Photos	Selena Gomez	Michael Phelps
3.	Hurricane Sandy	Olympics 2012	iPhone 5	Peyton Manning


Rank	Top Convo Starters	Top Sports	Top Music	Top Food	Top Countries
1.	#nowplaying	#nfl	rick ross	ihop	#syria
2.	#oomf	#nascar	#hiphop	starbucks	china
3.	#blessed	#mlb	trey songz	waffle house	japan

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