More Details & Stats on User Communication Patterns from Facebook Data Team

Two weeks ago, Facebook’s “in house sociologist” Cameron Marlow shared interesting data with The Economist on Facebook users’ social behavior patterns – essentially, while Facebook users have many friends, they only actively communicate with a core group of them.

Today, Marlow has shared additional thoughts and data on the findings in his personal blog. A few highlights:

1) Facebook’s Data Team calculated the number of friends for whom users “maintain” Facebook relationships, where “maintain” is defined as having clicked on a News Feed story or visited their profile more than twice.

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