Happiness

[green_amber]

Someone has done research using LJ mood tags on what activities are asociated with happiness, and what are not. It's a hilarious picture of the average US teen lifestyle..

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-happiness-is-reflected-in-blogs.html

Via clarehooper (hello Clare!)

Comments

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Fab!

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Math is hard. Let's go shopping.

[gleisdreieck.livejournal.com]

I saw a poster (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalog/files/eacl2006-moodsignals.pdf) at a conference last year which used LJ mood tags to attempt to explain "spikes in the mood of the blogosphere". They trawled LJ to find days when lots of people wrote posts tagged "excited" or whatever, and then searched Google news to try and find an explanation (e.g. release of new Harry Potter book).

[clarehooper.livejournal.com]

Hello! *waves*