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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."
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?
"Facebook, Facebook, on the wall
Who is the fairest of them all?"
I wish APK was here to guide me with setting up my hosts file... I want all sites to point to beta.slashdot.org!
You people fear change too much. Bring on the new!
So am I the only person who is back after a week of choosing not to visit the site?
"To stop the terrorists."
I've not nothing against the new, but Beta thoroughly eviscerated the comment system. I could even live with the lack of decent moderation, I tend to read at -1 anyway, even if I do have everything below 1 folded. But the changes to the comment system destroy slashdot as a conversational medium. All the extra whitespace and huge wide sidebars cut the width of comments to 1/3 which makes long comments practically unreadable, and it sounds like you don't get any notification of replys. What, I'm supposed to keep returning to my comments throughout the day to see if someone has replied? I don't think so. Slashdot eats quite enough of my time without that thank you very much.
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
So, as a corporation governed by the bottom line, should we be expecting Facebook to subtly sabotage budding relationships to stimulate Facebook participation?
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
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.
Cool. This is what we need - alternatives, for when Dice decides to go full retard and implement their horrid new system. Will the /. community fracture, or will most of it land somewhere else?
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
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]
That must be why I see all the ads for Christian Mingle - I am neither Christian nor single.
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.
Is there a reference for the 70% of divorces are filed by women?