Facebook revealed several relationship trends collected from billions of its users data: age, religion, marriage, places, and even Facebook posts patterns.
Just in time for the love month, the social networking giant released some discoveries about its users' relationships, like a couple's age difference and religion, and places single people usually go to as well as places where the chance of finding partners is high.
Mike Develin, a member of Facebook's data science team found that in 67 percent of all heterosexual relationships, males are older that women, while approximately 20 percent is the other way around. Upon exploring all age differences, he noticed that as people in the U.S. gets older, the age gap increases.
He also studied connection between religion and relationships and found that interfaith relationships, or relationship between two persons with different religions, are common in Spain. Intermarriage, on the other hand, is common in Portugal and Romania.
Develin also named a handful of cities that single people usually visit which include Los Angeles, Detroit, Memphis, Miami and New York. On the other hand, those searching for love may opt for Colorado Springs, Colo., Fort Worth, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, El Paso, Texas, and Louisville, Ky.
"In a city where everyone is paired up, the incentive to pair up is even stronger, while cities like New York and Miami are places that people go to be single," as Develin explained in his own blog post.
Another data scientist with Facebook, Carlos Diuk, studied timeline posts of Facebook users who started a relationship.
He found that in 100 days before changing their relationship status, the user's timeline posts generally goes up. The peak comes 12 days before the relationship status change with an average of 1.67 posts per day.
After the change of status is made, the timeline post activity decline. "Presumably, couples decide to spend more time together, courtship is off, and online interactions give way to more interactions in the physical world," Diuk said in his blog post.
