How Facebook relationship status affects life outlook

Although I wouldn’t call the study rigorous, the Facebook Data Team has done an interesting analysis of the positivity and negativity of the status updates of English speaking people given their relationship status. In particular, arguably unsurprisingly, people who are listed as “In a Relationship” or “Married” have a substantially more positive outlook than those who aren’t. A bit more strikingly, people listed in open relationships are massively negative relative to all other groups, including “Single”. I guess all those philanderers I knew in college weren’t as happy as they seemed.

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