Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, But Facebook Users Rally Around Their Broken-Hearted Friends

Breaking up is hard to do, but for many Facebook users, their friends rally around them to provide comfort immediately after the change in their relationship statuses, according to the final installment in the Valentine’s Day series by the Facebook Data Science Team.

FBDataScienceBreakups650Breaking up is hard to do, but for many Facebook users, their friends rally around them to provide comfort immediately after the change in their relationship statuses, according to the final installment in the Valentine’s Day series by the Facebook Data Science Team.

The Facebook Data Science Team studied anonymized, aggregated data on users whose relationship statuses had been “in a relationship” for at least four weeks, and then changed to “single,” and Adrien Friggeri discussed the findings in a note on the Facebook Data Science page:

For every person in this group, we tracked a combination of the number of messages they sent and received, the number of posts from others on their Timelines, and the number of comments from others on their own content, during a period starting one month before the separation to one month after.

The following graph represents the value of that weighted interactions score over time, relative...

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