Facebook is showing the world that it really cares about happiness. The social network is set to release it application that indexes happiness of its users across Canada, Australia and UK. It was initially meant to be released in the US alone. Glad they changed that bit and realized that happiness is not just meant to be indexed in one region.
The app simply keeps a check on your status updates. The idea is to figure out on what days are the users most happy and days of the year when they are emotionally low. Of course this wont provide you the exact figures but it is interesting, given it can very well help you figure what actually are the days when they are the most happy. I can bet the those days include holidays, major events like Christmas, New year Eve, Easter, etc. The stats [which you can view here] provide a much detailed analysis on how the graph is plotted, primarily in terms of Happiness, days when the emotional status updates were zero and days with positive and negative emotions.
It is quite an interesting way to provide an insight on mood across the varying user base. To be honest it is one the more useful applications on the social networking platform. Just a tip off the happiest day in the last year across the four countries was Christmas. Isn’t it obvious?
