Big Data case: watching American social and marriage through Facebook

Beijing Time April 27 news, according to foreign media reports, the U.S. computing search engine Wolfram Alpha Wednesday released a Facebook user social life habits of the analysis, showing the global Facebook users of interpersonal and marital status. The study was targeted at more than 1 million users using the Wolfram Alpha website free feature "Personal Analytics for Facebook".

The Wolfram Alpha Service is able to use sophisticated algorithms to answer user questions about social networking and generate a tabular report that allows users to intuitively understand their social behavior on Facebook.

The study found that Facebook users with a moderate degree of activity had 342 friends. This figure has shown sustained and rapid growth in recent years. But the statistics do not cover everyone who uses the service, because many people have few friends on Facebook, and this part doesn't include statistics.

Distribution of social relationships

According to the analysis, on Facebook, there are huge differences between friends and Lone Ranger, and it seems that the main reason is age.

"Facebook users ' friends have been growing fast for some time, usually peaking at the end of the teen years, followed by slower growth," he said. "Why?" said Stephen Wolfram, a psychologist and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram. I think this partly reflects the intrinsic behavior of the human being, and to some extent reflects Facebook's popularity in the world for a long time. ”

Age distribution of marital status

The report also shows how Facebook users are changing their relationship status. On Facebook, users typically adjust their "emotional state" (relationship status) to "Being in Love" (in a relationship) at the age of 20, then start adjusting to "engagement" (engaged) around 27, and then Of course, let the whole world know that they are married. In close to 30 to 60 years old, the user's marital status changes slowly.

Wolfram compared the data with the U.S. Census and found that the two were almost identical. Like Facebook users, most people in the real world get married in the middle age of 20-30.

By analyzing Facebook's data, the researchers also found that although Facebook now has a total of 100 million users, most users are young.

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