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Jan 20, 2010 13:33

Why does it say at the top of my Yahoo inbox "Trending right now: Haiti orphans"??

Trending?

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the_colombian January 21 2010, 00:34:16 UTC
February is THE month for Haiti Orphans. If you don't own one you may as well NOT go outside. You'll be a social OUTCAST.

Like, for seriously.

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monkeypunk January 21 2010, 00:46:48 UTC
Bullshit, it's black history month, not current black tragedy month.

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the_colombian January 21 2010, 01:19:55 UTC
Daaaaaaaaaaamn. Oh no she di'unt!

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wanderingastray January 21 2010, 14:09:30 UTC
I'm not sure you wanted a real answer to this, but the answer is:
There were several people (mostly, but not all, American) who were in the final stages of adopting a number of Haitien orphans from the same orphanage in Port au Prince. Said orphanage has been severely damaged, and several of the orphans are as of yet unaccounted for. Apparently a tragedy seems more real when it's personalized, because now the whole world seems to be searching the net to find out whether the orphans have been found/identified, yet.

So it's a trending topic because it's one that everyone on yahoo is searching for/talking about.

But yeah. It reads pretty strangely when it's written out like that.

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monkeypunk January 21 2010, 16:32:59 UTC
Yeah, it's a new feature, and I think "trending" is a stupid term to use on it's own. I don't have a yahoo chat account or anything, so I'm unsure as to why it's showing up in my inbox.

But in general, I'm sort of uncomfortable with classing the whole disaster along with gossip about Jay-Z (which was what preceded it, some other worthless celebrity followed) it seems off.

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