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Facebook Analyzes the Impact of Love On Their Business
c0lo writes "Facebook might understand your romantic prospects better than you do. In a blog post, the company's team of data scientists announced with hard numbers that hints at budding relationships before the relationships start. 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 (and less on FB?!) A subsequent blog entry offers an insight on break-ups: it is the last of a series of 6 blogposts that ran last week on the "love" theme."
I've just removed the loopback slashdot.org entry from my hosts file, after a week of the beta boycott. Slashdot appears to be normal, right now. What happened.
Did they abandon the Beta plan or should I add the loopback back into my hosts file?
Probability of Relationship is inversely related to Slashdot posting frequency.
Why are there so many sad love poems as opposed to happy ones? When you're happily in love there are better things to do than write poetry.
I suppose the same applies to Facebook postings - when you're happily in love, there's better things to do than write on someone's wall.
How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?
A Disney movie finally understands what "true love" is.
"Facebook, Facebook, on the wall
Who is the fairest of them all?"
So am I the only person who is back after a week of choosing not to visit the site?
"To stop the terrorists."
Hopefully they will not be pigheaded MBAs and bring about Slashdot's demise.
So, as a corporation governed by the bottom line, should we be expecting Facebook to subtly sabotage budding relationships to stimulate Facebook participation?
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Funny system in a world of so called gender equality. Ask the female cuntbag why she'll never ask a guy out?
No, duck beta.
As long as guys want sex with a woman, she is in control.
She is more educated (60% of graduates), controls more wealth (80%), and makes the relationship decisions (70% of divorces are filed by women).
Guys need to step up. Go to college so you make more than she makes, get out of the basement and into the sunlight, eat healthier, exercise.
If you don't, she'll find someone who does and then it's later, loser.
Quack quack!
Spare him all this irrelevance (are you a woman?), all you had to say was: "YES, men will always have to ask the woman out."
FB is looking into a match making service and testing the market... That's all this is. and if it works. MS will follow... no doubt claiming it was there first...... and that is a match made in...... well hell...
There's always "those two" who start posting on each other's walls, obviously as just an excuse to chat, and then when they finally hookup they stop posting because they're too busy making out. Usually the Facebook mingling accelerates slowly -- The guy posts, the girl responds (or doesn't respond, so the guy takes a hint.) Etc. When marriage finally ensues, and the two live together, they leave Facebook almost entirely. Of course this is a reflection of the general social behavior of people. When we're young, we mingle with a lot of people until we find a mate, then drop out of the social sphere partially or fully. I've long suspected the highly social nature of teenagers and young adults is (partially) a social function to find romance, even if it's unintentional. Most people who have ran in various social circles will find there's some pseudodating within coed friend groups, where one pair will spend a bit more time with each other, which then either escalates into a real relationship, or the peliminary psuedodating fails and never progresses to real dating -- I.e. they start "posting on each others walls" a lot, until they drop out of the social circle (Facebook.)
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
Finally, a quantifiable comparison between the powers of love and hate.
That must be why I see all the ads for Christian Mingle - I am neither Christian nor single.
LMAO
Fuck Facebook.
Must be because you Like it and want to romance it.
But from the article, it sounds like MarcZ already knows how much you want to make love to his software.
Soylent News is visually hideous. The dark-red-on-gray color scheme is atrocious, comments (especially replies) are ugly, and the top header needs to go die in a fire. Not to mention that there's nobody there in the comments.
Complain all you want about Slashdot Beta, but at least it doesn't repeatedly stab my retinas like that site does. I give it a year or two that it'll still be around, tops.
When marriage finally ensues, and the two live together, they leave Facebook almost entirely.
That's not entirely true. Eventually, they come back, change their profile picture to one of their newly-sprung offspring and start posting updates that their single friends now need to pretend are interesting.
Is there a reference for the 70% of divorces are filed by women?