A piece in The Atlantic describes how Facebook proves we’re all very predictable.
As couples become couples, Facebook data scientist Carlos Diuk writes, the two people enter a period of courtship, during which timeline posts increase. After the couple makes it official, their posts on each others’ walls decrease—presumably because the happy two are spending more time together.
In the post on Facebook’s data science blog, Diuk gives hard numbers:
During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple. When the relationship starts (“day 0”), posts begin to decrease. We observe a peak of 1.67 posts per day 12 days before the relationship begins, and a lowest point of 1.53 posts per day 85 days into the relationship. Presumably, couples decide to spend more time together, courtship is off, and online interactions give way to more interactions in the physical world.
I suppose if you’re keeping track of this sort of thing, it’s better to be paid for it.
I presume this will allow users the ability to filter out new couples. Although, a more useful filter would be parents who post so many photos of their kids, you’d think they work for Gerber.
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A piece in The Atlantic describes how Facebook proves we’re all very predictable.
As couples become couples, Facebook data scientist Carlos Diuk writes, the two people enter a period of courtship, during which timeline posts increase. After the couple makes it official, their posts on each others’ walls decrease—presumably because the happy two are spending more time together.
In the post on Facebook’s data science blog, Diuk gives hard numbers:
During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple. When the relationship starts (“day 0”), posts begin to decrease. We observe a peak of 1.67 posts per day 12 days before the relationship begins, and a lowest point of 1.53 posts per day 85 days into the relationship. Presumably, couples decide to spend more time together, courtship is off, and online interactions give way to more interactions in the physical world.
I suppose if you’re keeping track of this sort of thing, it’s better to be paid for it.
I presume this will allow users the ability to filter out new couples. Although, a more useful filter would be parents who post so many photos of their kids, you’d think they work for Gerber.
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Posted by Stephen Robinson on February 16, 2014 in Social Commentary
Tags: Facebook, love, The Atlantic