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The premise is simple: David McCandless and his team searched 10,000 Facebook status updates for the phrases ?break up? and ?broken up" and used that information to create the graph you see above.

The idea: To try and paint a general picture of when Facebook users choose to end relationships.

The results are telling: Your significant other wants to bang other people during Spring Break.� Additionally, he/she doesn't want to go visit your family for the holidays.� Or maybe he/she wants to be single so he/she can bang your family members over the holidays.� I'm not here to judge; I'm looking at the same graph you are.

Regardless, if you're trying to end your streak of being "forever alone," right before Christmas seems to be the time to make your move.� A lot of people just got the ax.

On the flipside, if you want to avoid getting dumped, try only talking to your significant other once a year on Christmas Day.� It's the lowest break up day of the year!

[via Mashable]

Here's another last minute Halloween costume…

Gawker gives you everything you need to dress as Facebook founder and legendary dick, Mark Zuckerberg.� You can get a full-size printable version of the mask above on their website.

Though I have no intention of spending my Halloween dressed as a curly-haired freak, I do enjoy just looking at the mask.� Seeing those empty white spaces where Mark's eyes should be serve as a constant reminder that the man has no soul and is essentially dead inside.

Not included in the costume: billions of dollars.

Every week we see countless comments that have absolutely nothing to do with anything. Our favorite irrelevant comment this week came from Joe Esser in response to a picture of a creepy chocolate factory.

Joe, this isn't Match.com. It's the Tosh.0 fan page on Facebook. You can't go around hitting on innocent girls like Tina Mills. Her boobs look very nice. But come on, mind your manners.

If you have any irrelevant comments please go ahead and leave them below. We bloggers appreciate your cooperation!

Titties!

The Fox 4 news team in Dallas-Fort Worth parodies news media's ridiculous obsession with social networking. Funny stuff, guys! Shootings? Always hilarious. Dead bodies crack me up.

Actually I really did enjoy this. Our culture's reliance on social media is a joke. So thumps up for making fun of all that, Fox 4.

See more entertaining stuff by following Daniel, Mike, and me on Twitter and by signing up for our Facebook fan page. And, of course, you can always text PUKE to 44686 to get the latest info on Tosh.0 sent straight to your phone. Message & data rates may apply.

[via�The DW]

According to a recent report on Mashable, parents regularly check their kids Facebook profiles.� From their blog post:

"The survey of 2,000 parents and teenagers by TRUSTe and Lightspeed Research found that 72% of parents check in on their teen?s social networking accounts at least once per month."

I'm not surprised.� If I was a parent, I'd definitely be checking out my children's profiles.� I'd want to make sure they were only hanging out with the coolest kids and being invited to the hottest parties.

What??� You said you're "Maybe" going to Tommy Rosenfeld's birthday!?� That kid is such a tool.� His likes include "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Willow Smith."� And his latest status update was "Putt putt with my little sister. Perfect Saturday nite, alright!!"

Ugh.� You're totally grounded.

Stalking people on Facebook is about to get a lot better. Eight times better to be precise.

No more squinting to make out tiny pictures.� Facebook announced they've started "rolling out support for print-quality, high-resolution photos."� The new format will allow images to be up to 8 times larger.

The implications are many.� Remember how you recently stopped crotch-stuffing?� Yeah, time to start riding that train again.

Women, those cute poses might be enough to make you look attractive with a mere 720 pixels, but at 2048 pixels you're going to need to focus on the two "makes" — makeup and make-ing sure you stay away from people with cameras.

That's right, thanks to the new and improved Facebook we can all revel in being the hideous trolls that we are.

[via Techland]

So there's this movie coming out tomorrow called The Social Network, directed by a pretty amazing director, written by a pretty legendary drug addict, and starring Justin Timberlake and a bunch of other goons who were never in boy bands.

The critical response to the film is already through the roof, with Metacritic currently scoring it at a 97 out of 100 and Rotten Tomatoes showing a 97% approval rating.

The movie is about Facebook.� You know, the website.� In the movie, I'm hoping they'll explain why every single event I get invited to is worthy of its own message.� Isn't there a way to separate out real messages from event invites in my inbox?� Is the movie going to address that?

Well, whatever.� I hate movies and never see movies, but what do you guys think?� The Social Network?� Eh, eh…� I've heard there's cocaine and hookers in it!� That makes it almost as good as the Tom Hanks' vehicle Bachelor Party!

She's still on MySpace? I didn't see that coming.

[via IAB]

It's time we take a stand against any Facebook profile picture that isn't a unicorn petting a cat.

Change begins right now.

We're like the Tea Party! Except with a much greater purpose.

[pic via PIU]

I'd love to take the time to defend Blondie up there but I don't want my cookies to burn.

[via Bits & Pieces]