Facebook graphs speech of the masses
- added April 16, 2008
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A new feature on Facebook dubbed "Lexicon" allows you to chart the occurrence of words over time by looking at text found in the site's message board posts. Facebook offers such suggested searches as "midterm, final" or "yankees, red sox". The crack-ups at Valleywag suggest "pregnant, tequila". Try it yourself: http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/
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This is seriously cool. I searched 'pissed and hangover' figuring that they would be two words commonly associated with each other and be in constant use on Facebook.
Unsurprisingly, it seems lots of people got smashed at Xmas time, and hangover's seemed to be the 'in-thing' on January 1st.
Wow, that's truly groundbreaking news. Why not go and try it for yourself, take a screengrab of your results and upload it to the site. Be interesting to see what people come up with... -
I like it and I think they're onto something. I searched for 'cor blimey' and the lexicon quite rightly acknowledged that phrase has had its day. A search for 'cool' suggests it's on the way out, possibly to be replaced by a snappy, new word that's yet to catch on.
I think this new feature is very... dunkblast!
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