Facebook can now predict if your relationship is doomed

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Nairobi post

Couples who had lots of mutual friends on facebook
were not the strongest duos - the mutual
friends had to know each other as well.
Who you are friends with on Facebook
could determine when you will break up
with your partner or not.
A study from Cornell University in
America has worked out a way of
accurately predicting which couples will
separate just by seeing who they're
friends with on facebook
Lars Backstrom and Jon Kleinberg looked
at over 1.3 million Facebook users to
come up with the method.
Couples who had lots of mutual friends
were not the strongest duos - their
mutual friends also had to know each
other as well.
Called "low dispersion," this means that
your friends meet your partner's friends
and merge to form one large social group on facebook

"A spouse or romantic partner is a bridge
between a person’s different social
worlds,” Kleinberg explained to the New
York Times.
Using this, Backstrom and Kleinberg were
able to correctly identify who somebody’s
spouse was 60 per cent of the time and
correctly guess somebody’s partner a
third of the time.
Relationships that hadn’t been spotted
using the dispersion algorithm were 50
per cent more likely to break up over the
next two months, compared to those that
had been identified by looking at
friendships of mutual friends.
Facebook is not planning on integrating
this information into the website just yet,
however.
A spokeswoman told PCMag.com: "The
specific findings from this study are not
currently being used in making News Feed
a better product.
"It has helped the team think about
things and informed some of the features
we use in ranking."

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