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This chart tracks relationship trouble via Facebook status updates, which show a spike of breakups in the spring |
Now that social networks are planning my life for me when are they gonna feed and bathe me?
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."
They found two big spikes on the calendar for breakups.
The first was after Valentine's Day
And let's hear it for cheapskates. The other big romantically treacherous time, according to the graph, is about two weeks before Christmas -- presumably as people begin pricing gifts for their significant others.
Mondays, as if they weren't bad enough, are the most likely day to break up. Summer and fall look like the safest seasons.
And, possibly showing that some people's sense of humor is more twisted than others, there's a spike in breakups on April Fool's Day. Merry Christmas Single People
L.G
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