British journalist and graphic designer, analysed 10,000 Facebook status
updates before figuring out the two peak times of the year when people tend
to get dumped by their partners.
Famous for displaying data in a visual manner, McCandless, who is also the
author of Information is Beautiful, first displayed the graphic
at the annual TED conference in Oxford earlier this year. However, the
graphic has gone viral over the last few days and garnering a lot of
attention online.
His research, based on public Facebook data, found that there are these two
big spikes in the year when people were most likely to break up with their
boyfriend or girlfriend. However, there was also a spike two weeks prior to
Christmas.
The research also showed another spike around April Fool’s Day, after people
jokingly split with their partners and that Monday was the most common day
of the week for break-ups to be announced via Facebook.
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