Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped

Pickens writes "Cnet reports that according to a graphic making the rounds online that uses Facebook status updates to chart what time of year people are splitting up, there are three big spikes on the calendar for breakups — just after Valentine's Day, just before spring break and two weeks before Christmas. British journalist and graphic designer David McCandless, who specializes in showcasing data in visual ways, compiled the chart after scraping 10,000 Facebook status updates for the phrases 'breakup' and 'broken up.' 'Might I suggest that, immediately after Valentine's, some women might be casting men from their sight, appalled that their lovers could think of nothing more romantic than roses from the supermarket and dinner at Outback Steakhouse,' writes Chris Matyszczyk. 'Continuing with this obviously accurate analysis, perhaps it's men who do more of the dumping just before spring break, as for some —however unfairly — their main concern lies in how their girl will look on the beach.'"

Comments

Re:Picky, picky, picky

[countSudoku()]

:) Sounds like someone who does not have a taste for the Hot Chicks. The average HC needs WAY more attention and gifts than does your average Fat Chick, and that can be discouraging. Now a FC will put out on a dime, a HC must be worked before the payoff, unless she's a whore, then youse takes yours chances. Take your pick, I choose the Hot Chick, non-slutty version. I choose... wisely. Still, I've had my fair share of the FCs too. There's something to be said for a gal who'll go down on you for nothing more than good conversation, and a nice dinner.

On the topic of the article that I'll not be clicking on; do you really need a social network graph to tell you that people break up before xmas to get out of giving a gift to someone they no longer care for? Or right before summer (swimsuit look), and after the most dreaded day of all; Valentine's Day when your great gift turned out to not be so great after all? Life's a game, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose...

Re:So do I...

[sexconker]

Somewhere out there is a woman who loves you for who you are, regardless of the D&D figurines (or warhammer, or computers, or model railway...).

My mom's already married!

Odd. That didn't exactly stop her from greedily slurping my cock.

Re:So do I...

[spun]

I'm not a serf, and the state is not my lord. If anything, I am a customer. I can shop for my governance here, or go elsewhere. As I currently feel I am getting good value for my money, I continue to stay. If I really felt I was getting a bad bargain, I would shop around.