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Will Scrabulous Get You Fired?

Facebook's new Lexicon feature (free Facebook membership required) graphs the popularity of terms used by Facebook members over time. For example, a search for the term "hangover" shows an unsurprising spike on January 1st:

Looks like there is a recurring weekly hangover problem as well. And additional spikes for the days after St Patrick's Day and Halloween.

So, what is this Scrabulous vs Fired graph telling us:

Is the popular online Scrabble game hurting the economy?

And are bachelor parties doing more to break people up than bring them together?

I'll try to investigate further once I've played a few games to Scrabulous to help me recover from a hangover. :-)

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1. Posted by: Rachel on April 18, 2008 11:38 PM:

This is incredible!!! I've been sitting here for 30 minutes just typing in word after word after word.
The best graph I've found so far is when I use the search terms "mccain, clinton, obama, ron paul"
The graph makes it quite clear America has an opinion, and it is certainly voiced through facebook!

2. Posted by: jules on April 19, 2008 9:39 PM:

Oh my.
This could become addicting.
:-)
Thanks Ed!!

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