Facebook - Gross National Happiness
Contributed by: Editor on Sunday, October 11 2009 @ 12:27 pm
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Facebook has a neat idea, The United States Gross National Happiness index.
It works by taking peoples status updates everyday and grouping them together to measure how happy or satisfied everyone is. This automated process (which removes all identities) looks for positive and negative keywords to determine how happy someone is. Here is a sample that looks back 6 months:
A quick look at the graph over the past year shows huge spikes on holidays when people are most happy. Christmas, then Thanksgiving and then Easter are the leading days when the most people are happy. On a weekly trend, obviously most people are the happiest on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Mondays definitely are when people have the most negativity in their Facebook status updates.
For the full interactive graph, visit Facebook[*1] .
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