Valentine’s Day has been filling my news feed all day.  Most of which has been happy couples that have been together long.  While other new relationships were celebrating they’re first Valentine’s Day.  Of course, many proud singles were posting selfies with pet Valentine’s.  The two social media platforms I use are Twitter and Facebook mostly.  Both of my news feeds had one post after the other and couldn’t take more than 2 scrolls before I closed the apps.

Facebook has been conducting research tracking the amount of days between time line posts and relationship statuses.  As well as, Twitter tracking which countries and U.S. regions tweet about being in love the most.  I thought the findings of the research were comical.  The famous, “I heart NY” slogan must be true.  New York State is top three in the country on Twitter saying the three words, “I love you.” 

The article related to the in-class tagging exercise and basic principles of SEO were used in the research.  The article notes, “To determine this, Facebook looked at words expressing positive emotions — such as "love", "nice" and "happy" — compared to ones with negative connotation ("hate", "hurt" and "bad").”

The main thing that stuck out to me in the article is Facebook can predict when relationship statuses will update.  I honestly don’t know whether I should be scared or not.  Read the article to seewhich three states are least intimate.