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What happens to your Facebook profile when you find love

Your social networking profile is a pretty good indicator of when you start a new romantic relationship and all the happy feelings that go with a new romance, says Facebook’s data scientists.

From 2010 to 2013, the team has been studying relationship patterns between Facebook users from the time a courtship is sparked, to when things become official and they are a couple.

According to a blog post by Facebook, the scientists studied a group of users who changed their relationship statuses from “Single” to “In a relationship” and also put up an anniversary date as the start of their relationship.

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“During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple. When the relationship starts (“day 0″), posts begin to decrease. We observe a peak of 1.67 posts per day 12 days before the relationship begins, and a lowest point of 1.53 posts per day 85 days into the relationship. Presumably, couples decide to spend more time together, courtship is off, and online interactions give way to more interactions in the physical world,” explained Carlos Duik.

The data scientists also picked up a trend in ‘happier’ posts on users’ profile before and after the beginning of a relationship.

1898250_10152219519288415_127545461_nSee more interesting stats on relationships on the Facebook blog.

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