Signs of the Times: Is Your Facebook Feed as Inspiring as Ours Today?

On Facebook today, depending on your friends, you may have seen a sea of red equal signs indicating support for marriage equality. Even a few businesses got into the mix. Here are a few of our favorites.

BY Advocate.com Editors

March 26 2013 7:30 PM ET UPDATED: March 27 2013 11:52 AM ET

Maybe your Facebook feed includes the likes of governors Martin O'Malley of Maryland, Dannel Malloy of Connecticut, or Pat Quinn of Illinois. Or maybe you're pals with senators Mark Warner of Virginia or Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. If so, you had a few more red equal signs in your feed as they all joined the swell of celebrities, politicians and organizations today that changed profile pictures as a show of solidarity with LGBT people.

The list of members of the House sporting red equal signs is equally lengthy. And celebrities gay and straight switched their pics or commented about it as same-sex marriage broke through national headlines. But most striking to the average user was the comfort of seeing friends openly expressing their support with a basic red equal sign.

Something called the "Facebook Talk Meter" was at one point filled top to bottom with Supreme Court related chatter.

1. Equality
2. DOMA
3. Supreme Court
4. Perry
5. Kennedy
6. Prop 8
7. Kagan
8. SCOTUS
9. Scalia
10. Defense of Marriage

The word "equality" alone was up 5,000% over it usual pace. And Facebook reports that the top age group talking about it was 35-to-44 year olds, besting those twenty-somethings.

But when it comes to anything talked about this much, the Internet loves a meme. George Takei's feed, for example, didn't disappoint with iterations of equal signs made for a laugh.

On the following pages, here's a sample of some that had us smiling.