I harbor no ill will towards either candidate, yet I find this funny and lightly informative. I also appreciate the technical side.
Coming from a country where self-deprecating humor is considered the mean, I must say that this didn't even remotely think "What losers!" about republicans.
Come to think of it, my first thought was "silly Americans", a thought aimed at the people that "liked" someone they thought might end up in office, and then un-liked him as soon as that didn't happen. I guess there's two kinds of shallow at work there:
- Mine, for thinking "silly Americans" when it's only a portion of them
- Theirs, for liking someone because he's popular
In the end, the dislikes say more about how people use Facebook (or maybe, social media in general) than about Republicans.
Finally, isn't it amazing what we can learn about human behavior with just a simple graph?
Coming from a country where self-deprecating humor is considered the mean, I must say that this didn't even remotely think "What losers!" about republicans.
Come to think of it, my first thought was "silly Americans", a thought aimed at the people that "liked" someone they thought might end up in office, and then un-liked him as soon as that didn't happen. I guess there's two kinds of shallow at work there: - Mine, for thinking "silly Americans" when it's only a portion of them - Theirs, for liking someone because he's popular
In the end, the dislikes say more about how people use Facebook (or maybe, social media in general) than about Republicans.
Finally, isn't it amazing what we can learn about human behavior with just a simple graph?