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Pretty sure this idea that Facebook can "predict" when people will break up was based on research by Lee Byron and David McCandless of 10,000 Facebook status up

Pretty sure this idea that Facebook can "predict" when people will break up was based on research by Lee Byron and David McCandless of 10,000 Facebook status updates with the terms "break up" or "broken up", presented as a nice graph[1] as part of a TED talk[2]. [1] http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/peak-break-up-times-on-facebook/ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/peak-break-up-tim... [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqjQ55tz-U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqjQ55tz-U (skip up to 6:30)

d_r 16y ago
Apparently it was also mentioned in The Facebook Effect http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-knows-that-your-relationship-will-end-in-a-week-2010-05 http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-knows-that-your-relation... "Zuckerberg sometimes amused himself by conducting experiments ... he studied who was looking which profiles, who your friends were friends with, and who was newly single, among other indicators..."