Worried about your relationship? Going into the holiday season, maybe you should be. Graphic designers Lee Byron and David McCandless wanted to find out what times of year people (or at least people on Facebook) were most likely to break up.
Tracking search terms for breakups across 10,000 Facebook status updates, they found that Christmas Day had the fewest splits, but the weeks leading up to Christmas constituted one of two yearly peaks. The other busy time for relationships to go bust: spring.
In another survey, the designers looked at why Facebook users break up and how they do it—with younger users relying more on phone calls and messaging.
Below, the peaks and troughs of breakups through the year, with the designers’ speculation on the timing.
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