Why Does Everyone Seem Pregnant?: The Vague Trending Facebook Stat

Indeed, Facebook has been this generation's gossip magazine featuring ordinary people which you call "friends". It's basically where you find out the greatest achievements of people you know (or don't personally know but just curious about) to the nastiest and stupidest things that has happened to them. It's a great source of information for stalkers, gossipers, and curious people since users has been unknowingly hooked up and seem to get everything they are doing written on their walls. Status updates that are weird, doesn't seem to make sense and just plain "attention-catchers" definitely attract long thread of comments that are in the first place can be talked about on chat boxes.  


For the last week, I have been noticing weird status updates from my Facebook female friends (even gays) posting statuses in a particular format, "I'm X weeks and craving Y" or for example "I'm 1 week and craving peanut butter cups". It reads as if everybody on Facebook is pregnant! After trying to ignore the "what seems to be the trending status format", I received a private message from one of my Facebook friends which finally enlightened me about these weird status updates.


It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month's (BCAM) campaign which is on October which if I'm not mistaken has been done for 2 years now. Last year's campaign was "I like it on the X" or "I like it on the sofa" (or bed or floor etc.) which turns out to be where women want to place their purses. 




Below is the exact message I received via Facebook inbox on what turns out to be BCAM's campaign. 


Ok ladies, it's that time of year again in support of Breast Cancer Awareness! We all remember the previous games with the bra colour and purses, right? This year we're doing something different! DO NOT tell any males what the status' mean, keep them guessing AND please forward this to your female friends to see if we can make a bigger fuss than last year!

The idea is to choose the month you were born in and the day you were born. You will set your status as "I'm (your brith month) and I'm craving (your birth date)!!!"

Example; Feb 14 = I'm 2 weeks and craving chocolate mints!!!

January = 1 week
February = 2 weeks
March = 3 weeks
April = 4 weeks
May = 6 weeks
June = 8 weeks
July = 10 weeks
August = 12 weeks
September = 13 weeks
October = 14 weeks
Novemeber = 16 weeks
December = 18 weeks

1 = Skittles
2= Starburst
3= KitKat
4= M&M's
5= Tomatoes
6= Ice Cream
7= Dairy Milk
8= Lollipop
9= Peanut Butter Cups
10= Meatballs
11= Twizzlers
12= Bubble gum
13= Hershey's Kisses
14= Chocolate Mints
15= Twix
16= Cheese
17= Fudge
18= Cherry Jell-O
19= Banana's
20= Pickles
21= Chicken Wings
22= Peanut M&M's
23= Gummie Bears
24= Gummie Worms
25= Strawberry Poptarts
26= Aero Bar
27= Mini Eggs
28= KitKat Chunkie
29= Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
30= Smarties
31= Chocolate Cake

Let's get ready to freak out the men!


So, what do you think about Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign? Feel free to leave your comments below. :)