[via Steve Buttry, stats from Socialnomics]

1. YouTube
2. Google
3. Facebook
4. Sex
5. MySpace
6. Porn

A few tweets outlined the obvious humor in teens determining Facebook to be more popular than bare tits. I, however, question why the fuck kids are having to search for simple sites like Google, YouTube and Facebook. If you are having to search for Google you shouldn’t have access to anything faster than a 56k modem.

Norton’s fear-mongering continues with the full list of 100 search terms, complete with Norton’s own assessment of why the term is relevant.

21. Norton Safety Minder (The small software that is part of Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton service. It is installed on each child’s monitored computer and actively informs the child upon log-in that their parents are monitoring their online activities.)

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26. Boom Boom Pow (Black Eyed Peas’ hit song.)

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30. Lady Gaga (American recording artist responsible for hits like “Just Dance” and “Poker Face.”)

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61. Hoedown throwdown (Hit song by Miley Cyrus)

62. MySpace layouts (Various websites offer layouts that MySpace users can download to customize their MySpace profiles.)

63. I’m on a Boat (Song by The Lonely Islands, featuring R&B singer T-Pain.)

And as the above terms hint, if the explanations weren’t horribly ironic, the juxtaposition of list items were:

71. Music

72.+Britney Spears (Hit singer and entertainer)

72.+Pussy

72.+Thriller (Michael Jackson’s hit 1983 song)

Other times, it’s a telling narrative:

85. Disney

86. Naked girls

87. Hulu (Free online video service that streams TV shows and movies.)

88. Naked

89.+iTunes (Apple’s digital media player)

89.+Norton Online Family (Beta name for Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton family safety service)

89.+Nude

89.+Playboy

93. Gmail.com

93. Swine flu

Arbor Networks, a Boston company that analyzes Internet use, says that Web traffic in the United States gradually declines from midnight to around 6 a.m. on the East Coast and then gets a huge morning caffeine jolt. “It’s a rocket ship that takes off at 7 a.m,” said Craig Labovitz, Arbor’s chief scientist.

Akamai, which helps sites like Facebook and Amazon keep up with visitor demand, says traffic takes off even earlier, at around 6 a.m. on the East Coast. Verizon Wireless reported the number of text messages sent between 7 and 10 a.m. jumped by 50 percent in July, compared with a year earlier.

One source for the story serves as a poster child for this technical thirst and its affect on print media.

“It used to be you woke up, went to the bathroom, maybe brushed your teeth and picked up the newspaper,” said Naomi S. Baron, a professor of linguistics at American University, who has written about technology’s push into everyday life. “But what we do first now has changed dramatically. I’ll be the first to admit: the first thing I do is check my e-mail.”

So is post-midnight still the happy hour for porn? I think we need more research.

Taken at Books-A-Million in the Muncie (Ind.) Mall.

What a FAIL : Your everyday life stories

Community failings in an anonymous, streamlined environment?

Why the hell didn’t we think of that?

The site, formed by some French dudes, allows visitors to post a few sentences about something they fail-worthy – all without taking credit for it. The outcome is a Twitter slash Juicy Campus slash Digg-like community full of … fail.

A few highlights from the current posts:

Today, my boyfriend and I were looking for our bublegun flavored “numbing” lotion to have some morning fun. We couldnt find it anywhere. After about 10 minutes, my little nephew comes from my room crying and drool coming out of his mouth. He smelt like bubblegum, his mouth and tongue were all numb. FAIL

Today, after I’d been looking for my mobile for 2 days, I realised that the vegetable compartment in the fridge was vibrating. FAIL

UPDATE: The blog re-branded a few days after this original post, changing it’s name to “F My Life.” The concept is still pretty much the same, so is the site design. Now it’s going viral. And who says profanity doesn’t work?