I’m about to hit the hay, but just had a thought.

There are more people actively playing Farmville on Facebook than are on Twitter.

That blows my mind, for a few reasons. The $1B valuation / uber hype around twitter is one part of it. But coming from the other direction, that so many people would try out something so frivolous and un-fun as farmville is really quite amazing.

I get the same emotions when I look at trending topics on twitter. People get really excited about them. I think they are pop tripe. On the face of it, Twitter made a huge error highlighting them so much. The trending topics are doomed to be uninteresting to most people. Take a recent, sad example like #lightskin.

But I know I’m wrong. Most people want to see what most people appear to want to see. That thought is such a downer for me.