I can't help but compare the second plot in the story, which plots "Positive emotions level" by time, to my passion-attraction model, which plots the same -- ht

I can't help but compare the second plot in the story, which plots "Positive emotions level" by time, to my passion-attraction model, which plots the same -- http://joshuaspodek.com/visual-model-understand-passion http://joshuaspodek.com/visual-model-understand-passion. Mine is just for fun, or rather just to speculate on something interesting from a geeky perspective to see what that perspective reveals about ourselves. Soon after making it I saw a plot some guy made of the number of texts between him and his girlfriend that vaguely resembled my plots. The Facebook plot doesn't continue to a relationship's decline, so it can't compare completely, but it does suggest we can quantify some interesting patterns and see what they reveal about us. If there's anything most of us would like, it's to understand our passions and attractions to improve these emotions and the relationships they lead to. It would be sad if the only entities using the data were companies that sell ads like Facebook and Google, and not ourselves. Also, if you like data analysis like this on relationships, be sure to check out Okcupid's Oktrends -- http://blog.okcupid.com http://blog.okcupid.com.