Fri, 02 Dec 2016
At the time, as full of doubt the ordinary
Facebook user painfully trying to understand himself and
thoughtfully puts the status: “Everything is difficult”, being unsure, are
whether his relationship is happy or he has already ordered separation from
beloved person, Facebook already “knows” how heartfelt things are
his user. Opened in October 2013 to scientists at Cornell
University John Kleinberg and Facebook engineer Lars
By Backstorm, a research studio reports how,
based on the circle of friends in social networks, you can judge
the duration and stability of the relationship of a love couple, as well as
how can I figure out myself which of my friends on Facebook is most likely
has a romantic relationship, deciding to hide them from
the public.
Of course, such statements are not based on nothing. For
conducting research for two years, data were collected
1.3 million active Facebook users. Wherein
researchers especially carefully studied lists of common friends
loving couples and found that the smaller the number of the same people
in friends with lovers, the weaker their relationship. It means that
the wider circle of friends of one partner, who are also in
the “friends” column of the other partner, the higher the probability that
A couple will be able to build a successful and strong relationship. For example, if
a man is familiar with university friends, work colleagues,
members of the volleyball team, neighbors in the hostel or
relatives of their beloved woman, their relationship
The John Kleinberg version can be called stable.
But what happens to couples who are not so rich?
an abundance of common friends in social networks? According to the observations
researchers, their relationship, as a rule, disintegrate later only
two months from the moment of their occurrence. And this is quite understandable! With
building relationships lovers are actively involved in
your partner’s daily life and as their
relationships are growing stronger, and the number of common social
contacts. If this does not happen, the answer is quite simple –
both partners are not sufficiently open to each other and not really
step together in life forward. In that case, their lifestyle and
circles of friends do not coincide, resulting in the path of lovers, to
Unfortunately, diverge in different directions.
