Facebook Lexicon
Apr.15, 2008 in
social networking
I’ve spent a while playing with Facebook’s newly announced feature, called Lexicon. It gives an interesting view into the sorts of things that social networking sites can do with the massive amount of user-created content that they hold.
Basically, Lexicon lets you compare how often keywords show up over time on people’s Walls in Facebook (no numbers, but that shouldn’t be a surprise), to measure “buzz”.
Facebook offers some good keyword suggestions, but here are some of the interesting ones I came across:
- ice cream, hot chocolate
- hot, cold
- study, finals, midterms (people study for finals but not midterms?)
- fraternity, sorority, rush
- red, green
- costume, santa, green
- heroes, prison break, snl, strike
Do you have any interesting ideas on how this could be used? Cool searches? I think it would be good if there was a way to normalize(?) the data, so we could filter out the the weekend and holiday dips in activity on facebook.
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