Many Facebook users spending Valentine's Day alone
If statistics from Facebook are anything to go by, many people will be spending this Valentine's Day single.
The world's largest social network analyzed the relationship status changes of its hundreds of millions of users in attempt to get some insight into the love life of people in 2012.
What it found was that of all the relationship statuses that were changed, most of the changes were to 'Single.'
Only 29.2 per cent of relationship status changes were to being 'In a Relationship.'
But it's not all that pessimistic, really. And although many people switched to being single, it could just be that the people who use Facebook are maturing. That's what the next set of numbers suggest.
Facebook says 8.2 per cent of its users became engaged and 7.6 per cent got married.
Only 0.8 per cent set 'Separated' and 0.6 per cent set their relationship status as 'Divorced.' Small numbers, or perhaps users were just embarassed to say their relationship had fallen apart.
Then again - how many people actually and realistically set their relationship status on Facebook? If you came out of a nasty divorce, are you really itching to tell the world that you are divorced?
Or wouldn't someone just say they're Single. Or better yet - leave the relationship status blank?
- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gadgets
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Posted by: SP | Feb 12, 2013 2:53:54 PM
Oh look, husband has to go on a business trip over Valentines week. Better quickly set my relationship settings to 'single' so that I can "make hay while the sun shines".
So to speak.
Anyone looking to Facebook for honesty is either delusional or very, very 'innocent'.
Posted by: u | Feb 13, 2013 12:55:40 AM
facebook is run by the CIA...
Posted by: ZREXER | Feb 14, 2013 4:36:44 PM
The novelty of Facebook wore off in about 6 months. I deleted my account at that point.