Facebook knows when you'll break up

[Evil Eye]

(CNN) -- Worried about when you might get dumped? Facebook knows.



That's according to a graphic making the rounds online that uses Facebook status updates to chart what time of year people are splitting up.



British journalist and graphic designer David McCandless, who specializes in showcasing data in visual ways, compiled the chart. He showed off the graphic at a TED conference last July in Oxford, England.



In the talk, McCandless said he and a colleague scraped 10,000 Facebook status updates for the phrases breakup and broken up.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/02/facebook.breakups/index.html





I wonder if they made more graphs like these

*scuttles off to find some*





Oh and this is not in news because it's not very news-y, more life-y.

 

[The Dragon Master]

But it's about Facebook, so shouldn't it be in the Internet section?



And interesting article.

 

[Evil Eye]

But it's about Facebook, so shouldn't it be in the Internet section?

That could work too

 

[Ashley]

Yes, but is that even...I don't even know what I wanted to say now... lost my train of thought.

 

[Cranos]

Sounds logical XD.

 

[identityissues8]

Man, I knew it was wise to get off that site!