Can research data help you stop a break up?
That is a fascinating question raised by this interesting piece, which many people are tweeting about and sharing links to in the last couple of days:
Amazing Facts About Facebook and Breakups
Basically, writer and designer David McCandless – author of Information is Beautiful – scanned thousands of Facebook status updates, seeking patterns regarding when people’s relationships most often break up. And he found some very specific patterns.
While the patterns are interesting in themselves, what may be most interesting are the questions they raise about how we can use this kind of information. For example, if we know there are times that we are most likely to breakup, can we then do something to change that pattern for the better?
I think it’s very possible, but may require more insight on why people break up during these periods. Are these breakups that were inevitable and just seem to have their last straw broken at those specific times? Or are these relationships that, if they were able to get through those pivotal times, could then go on to be more successful?
It seems we don’t yet know the answers to these questions. But this very interesting study raises a lot of possibilities for becoming conscious of relationship patterns and using that awareness to act more wisely and intentionally – and perhaps to stop a break up altogether.
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