Maintained Relationships on Facebook

This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Unfortunately, the article did not include any of the data visualizations, so we thought we would take the opportunity to describe our approach, the data, and our analysis in more detail.

For more details, check out the note from the Facebook Data Team, or head over to Cameron Marlow’s post at overstated.net.