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 [...]

Facebook app Farmville vs. Twitter

I saw over on Mashable a very interesting statistic. Apparently, as part of the press releases concerning their latest milestones a Facebook representative pointed out that there are more users of the Farmville app on Facebook that on the entirity of Twitter. Interesting, given the amount of press Twitter gets. Personally, I think one’s time [...]