best popular

Reading up on World Nutella Day, I was surprised to hear that it is ranks #3 on Facebooks “most popular” list.  But not nearly as surprising as numbers 6-9, 11, 13, and 15.

1.  Barack Obama.  Obviously

2.  Coca-cola

3.  Nutella

4.  Pizza

5.  Homer J. Simpson.  Homer’s middle initial is J?  Seriously?  Does this stand for something?

6.  Mr. Bean.  Do people really like this guy??

7.  Cristiano Ronaldo.  How does this random soccer player have so many friends on a website started by WASPy Harvard kids?

8.  Chocolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate.  How do people know the cool group is the one with 17 “a”s and not 15?

9.  Kinder surprise.  The European chocolate products are really cleaning up here.

10. Facebook

11.  Windows Live Messenger.  Who uses this product?  Where’s Twitter?

12.  Michael Phelps.

13.  Sid.  I had to click on the link to realize this is the weird creature from Ice Age.  He has a name?  And 1.97 million friends?

14.  YouTube

15.  Boo.  Ah, the days when you had to be enrolled in select universities to access Facebook…not so much select preschools.

Frankly, this list surprises me almost as much as the fact that Facebook itself has not gone the way of Friendster.  The lesson to take away here is that it really pays to target WASPs instead of Asians.