Facebook-Birthday Message Statistics
April 20th, 2008It seems like in today’s world of the Internet, text messages, and social networks, the Birthday Card has become almost an obsolete or unnecessary commodity. I’ll be honest, I stopped giving birthday cards to people a long time ago. I almost never include them in holiday gifts or birthday gifts… unless I find one that is just perfect for the recipient. We have found other ways to send birthday greetings to our loved ones.
My birthday was on Friday and I decided to conduct a little experiment of sorts. At 1:49am on early on Friday morning (or late Thursday night), I woke up from the sound of my phone receiving a text message. It was Facebook letting me know that someone had written on my wall. I gave a groan, rolled over, and went back to bed. At 6:46am another text message. Again, Facebook letting me know that someone else had written on my wall. Another at 7:03am, 7:08am, and 7:31am. Partially annoyed and partially grateful at these message, I started to wonder how this would continue throughout the day. I decided to take note of every Facebook wall post and what time it was posted. I was curious as to how many posts I was getting per hour, when were most people posting, etc. I compiled the data together and came up with the graphs you see below.
Sort of boring stuff… but whatever! I thought it was somewhat interesting.
