Facebook comments record broken by woman trying to do something ‘phenomenal’

Want to leave a legacy? Aim higher than Cathy Matthews, a woman who set a (unverified) record for the most Facebook comments on a single post.

Matthews, a Sacramento woman, started out playing Zynga’s Frontierville before coming up with the idea to break the world record for Facebook responses to a single post.

She told Sacramento’s FOX affiliate that she wanted to “leave [her] mark on the world.”

“I’m no spring chicken anymore and I really haven’t done anything phenomenal,” Matthews said.

Matthews, along with 106 other Facebook friends, sought to break the Guinness World Record for comments, set on a June 2011 post by an Italian man.

Matthews ended up with 1,001,291 responses to a single post, nearly doubling the previous record of 529,335.

You can see FOX 40′s interview with Matthews here.

Kudos to Matthews. Not only did this take a lot of effort — to achieve that number of comments, Matthews and her friends would had to have commented an average of almost 10,000 times each — but it set a second world record she wasn’t even aware of: Achieving the least phenomenal thing to ever be referred to as “phenomenal.” Good work.

Woman Gets over a Million Comments on Facebook Post [FOX 40]

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