Top 10 Lent Sacrifices Reported for 2010 Feb 19
At Loudpixel, we like to take the time to look beyond brand-specific research and point our talents toward greater cultural trends. In this case, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at what people are giving up for Lent this year. So we analyzed a sample from 27,786 posts* from Wednesday, February 17 to see what people had to say.
The following are the top 10 sacrifices posted online during Ash Wednesday
- * Posts sampled from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, forums, videos and comments using Radian6:
- Undecided (looking for recommendations): 14.3%
- Junk Food: 10.9%
- Technology: 9.8%
- Negativity: 4.5%
- Alcohol: 4.2%
- Swearing: 3.5%
- Sex: 2.4%
- Meat: 2.1%
- Smoking: 1.3%
- Coffee: 1.1%
- Other: 45.9%
Some of our favorite sacrifices:
I’m giving up the 140th character for Lent. All tweets between now and Easter will only be 139 characters. That’s the kind of Catholic I am —@timhammer
I thought about giving up procrastination for #Lent but decided I’ll do it next year. —@joenobody
