Facebook graph reveals days when Brits are ‘happiest’
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- Mar 25, 2010
Facebook has extended its Gross National Happiness Index to the UK, revealing that Brits let their emotions show when it comes to family, TV and the weather.
The GNHI is an interactive graph that tracks status updates from people in the UK and analyses the words to plot how happy or sad the nation is on any given day.
As you’d expect Christmas, New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day are still among the happiest days of the year, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the happiest days of the week. But looking into what makes us
Brits tick the main peaks over the past few years have been down to the sun coming out, celebrating Mother’s Day and the X Factor final.
· May 11, 2008 – One of first sunny days of the year
· Dec 13, 2008 – X Factor Final
· Feb 2, 2009 – Snow Day for many working Brits
· May 24, 2009 – The day before bank holiday
· May 30, 2009 – One of first sunny days of the year
· Dec 13, 2009 – X Factor Final
· March 14, 2010 - Mother’s Day
Every day, millions of people share how they feel with the people who matter the most in their lives through status updates on Facebook. Grouped together, these updates are indicative of how we are collectively feeling.
When people in their status updates use more positive words, or fewer negative words, then that day as a whole is counted as happier than usual.
To protect users privacy, no-one at Facebook actually reads the status updates, using computers instead do the word counting after all personally identifiable information has been removed.
You can read more about how the Index works on the Facebook blog and access the interactive graph to find out more.
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