( CNN ) -- People talk about all kinds of things on social media : Their day-to-day lives , articles generating a lot of buzz and the things they ate for breakfast . Some of the conversations by Facebook 's 128 million daily users revolve around the news , and CNN now has the ability to take a peek into this world . Facebook has given CNN access to demographic data that tells us how many people have mentioned a topic along with age , gender and location information . We are n't actually reading through conversations , but rather looking at numbers that show us trends . Since we 've just gotten this information , we thought we 'd try something new . Each day , we 'll be comparing two topics that show interesting trends in their demographic data . You might see that more women are talking about a particular topic than men , or that younger age groups are mentioning one news event versus another . While this is n't a scientific study , we hope pitting two topics against each other will give some perspective on these results . Sometimes , these numbers can show us things we do n't expect . For example , we recently learned that many of the Facebook users talking about Iran were young people , especially internationally . We also found a similar trend in ages among the people talking about the government shutdown . Looking at Facebook mentions can give us insights that would be hard to get in any other way . Check back here to see new charts about topics in the news and popular conversation , and if you have ideas you want us to look into , let us know in the comments below .
What are people talking about ? I think the reason for this is that there was a lot of hype around it and many people were expecting something really special from it. CNN now has ability to see how often some topics are mentioned . Data is broad and shows demographics , rather than specific conversations .