Facebook can predict when youre going to break up. Yes, apparently the fate of your relationship is not written in the stars but in your social circle. Cornell University researcher Jon Kleinberg and Facebook senior engineer Lars Backstrom proved as much when they presented their co-written research paper at a social computing conference in February. The researchers took the datasets of 1.3 million Facebook users listed as being in a relationship, and found that the more well connected their mutual friends were, the more likely they were to break up. This theory is described as dispersion.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:36:31 +0000
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