Here’s What Americans Facebooked About More Than the #IceBucketChallenge In 2014

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From Ferguson to the Ice Bucket Challenge: 10 things Americans posted about most on Facebook this year

Facebook isn’t just a place to congratulate your friends for getting to “marry my best friend!! OMG #BLESSED!!!” anymore. The social network also serves as a platform to talk about actual news topics, ranging from ISIS to Ebola.

So as 2014 comes to a close, the social network analyzed what people were talking about most over the last year.

Here’s a list of what American’s posted about in 2014. Only one topic was more discussed than the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge:

1. Ebola virus outbreak
2. Ice Bucket Challenge
3. Robin Williams
4. Super Bowl
5. Michael Brown/Ferguson
6. World Cup
7. Conflict in Gaza
8. U.S. midterm elections
9. Malaysia Airlines
10. ISIS

The viral fundraising campaign was a little lower on the list when Facebook analyzed the topics that were discussed the most on a larger scale. Here’s the top global topics of 2014:

1. World Cup
2. Ebola virus outbreak
3. Elections in Brazil
4. Robin Williams
5. Ice Bucket Challenge
6. Conflict in Gaza
7. Malaysia Airlines
8. Super Bowl
9. Michael Brown/Ferguson
10. Sochi Winter Olympics

You can see the rest of Facebook’s year in review here.