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"A very interesting data visualization from infographic wizard David McCandless is making its way around the web, depicting the most common times a year that people break up \u2014 via Facebook status updates.\nMcCandless whipped out the chart during a TED talk this past summer. Apparently, he and his team scraped 10,000 status updates for the phrases \"break up\" and \"broken up,\" and made the following discoveries: 1). A ton of people break up before social occasions like Spring Break and the summer, 2). Mondays aren't just the start of the work week \u2014 there're the end of many a relationship, 3). People have the decency not to dump their significant others on Christmas Day.\nThe above chart is just another addition to a growing canon of information depicting both Facebook's effect on \u2014 and role in \u2014 the dating realm. In the past, we have explored the negative effects of Facebook on one's romantic life, as well as how some people use the social networking site to end things. \nWhat effect \u2014 if any \u2014 has Facebook had on your dating life?\n(via Mathias Mikkelsen)\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, A1Stock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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