Facebook Analyzes How Relationship Status Impacts Happiness  

Posted by Courtney Anthony in ,

Facebook decided to do some analyzing because of Valentines day. Facebook's analysis was based off of a person's facebook status compared to their relationship status. They wanted to find out which relationship seemed the most happy. The results were kind of interesting. Compared to being single, those in a relationship, married or engaged were more positive than those who were in an open relationship, it's complicated status, or widowed. Those that were unwilling to disclose their status seemed to be the most negative.

To view Mashable's article click here.
To view Facebook's graph's and full article click here.

1 comments

Alicia Schofield   says February 17, 2010 at 11:09 AM

I find this funny. In normal, everyday society, everyone knows that your happiness is not necessarily determined by whether or not your in a relationship. However, thanks to Facebook, there's a new stigma attached to relationship status. A relationship is not official anymore unless it's "Facebook official", and one of the first things people notice in their feed are things related to relationship statuses. It is interesting to see empirically how FB statuses and relationship statuses related, but I also don't think it's up to Facebook to determine people happiness based on these things.

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post

Categories

Followers