Posts Tagged "happiness"

Facebook: Relationships and Happiness [STUDY]

Posted by on Feb 16, 2010 in Facebook, Social Media | 3 comments

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Facebook Data team released information on relationships and happiness. The use of positive and negative words were examined in the status updates of Facebook users over the course of one week in January. According to the Facebook Data team, no one at Facebook actually reads the status updates in the process of doing this research and they utilize computers to count words and remove personally identifiable info. I had no idea Facebook did this kind of research. Overall, the data is not that surprising:  people who are in a relationship or married...

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