While the painful doubts of the ordinary Facebook user painfully trying to figure out himself and thoughtfully sets the status: “Everything is complicated”, unsure whether his relationship is happy or if separation from a loved one is already prescribed for him, Facebook already “knows” how his user's heartfelt affairs. Opened in October 2013 by Cornell University scholar John Kleinberg and Facebook engineer Lars Backstorm, the research studio reports how, based on a circle of friends on social networks, you can judge the duration and stability of a love couple’s relationship, as well as how you can calculate which of your Facebook friends is likely to have a romantic relationship, deciding to keep them from the public.
Of course, such statements are not based on scratch. To conduct the study over the course of two years, data of 1.3 million active Facebook users were collected. At the same time, the researchers especially carefully studied the lists of mutual friends of the loving couple and found that the smaller the number of the same people in friends with lovers, the weaker their relationship. This means that the wider the circle of friends of one partner who are also in the “friends” column of another partner, the higher the likelihood that the couple will be able to build successful and strong relationships. For example, if a man is familiar with university friends, work colleagues, members of the volleyball team, dormitory neighbors or relatives of his beloved woman, then their relationship, according to John Kleinberg, can be called stable.
But what happens to couples who do not differ in such a rich abundance of common acquaintances on social networks? According to the observations of researchers, their relationship, as a rule, will disintegrate only two months after their inception. And this is understandable! When building relationships, people in love take an active part in the daily life of their partner, and as their relationships strengthen, so does the number of common social contacts. If this does not happen, then the answer is quite simple - both partners are not open enough to each other and actually do not step forward together in life. In this case, their lifestyle and circles of friends do not coincide, as a result of which the paths of lovers, unfortunately, diverge in different directions.
