Nearly 50% of my Facebook friends are married, which adds up to 123 people total. Meanwhile, 20.1% or 51 of my friends are in a relationship, and 13 are engaged.  All this information I now know thanks to a new “Facebook Report” by Wolfram Alpha, which will gift you with more knowledge than you could possibly ever want to know about yourself and your Facebook profile.  You can access your data by going to Wolfram Alpha’s site and typing “Facebook report” into the search box. Results will ask you to authenticate the app, giving it permission to analyze your account and tell you details.  For instance, I now know I’m Facebook friends with 10 Davids, making that name the most popular on my friends list. Chris comes in second place with a total of 8 making their way onto my list of friends.  I have the most friends in common -–151 -– with my friend Benton, someone I’ve know since middle school. My oldest friend is a 74-year-old professor from college. My youngest is a 22-year-old I babysat when she was just a few years old.  “Wolfram Alpha knows about all kinds of knowledge domains; now it can know about you, and apply its powers of analysis to give you all sorts of personal analytics, “ Stephen Wolfram said in a post on the company blog. “And this is just the beginning; over the months to come, particularly as we see about how people use this, we’ll be adding more and more capabilities.”  In addition to those random trivia facts, the app also gives you a highly detailed breakdown of your most liked and commented on photos, what apps you use most often to upload pictures to the service and when, and even what your average post length is — mine is 9.47 words or 58.59 characters.  The app even gives you a detailed breakdown of you and where you’re from. I now know that I was born on a Sunday, and the current population of my hometown in North Carolina is 403,892 people.  “It’s quite fascinating—and sometimes revealing—looking at the personal analytics reports for oneself and one’s friends. I think I could spend ages doing it. And coming back at different times to see what’s changed, Wolfram added.  “I’ve no doubt that one day pretty much everyone will routinely be doing all sorts of personal analytics on a mountain of data that they collect about themselves,” Wolfram says. “But it’s exciting today to be able to start that off with Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. I hope people have fun with it! And perhaps it will also inspire some young Facebook users to become data scientists.”  Have any of you tried the tool out? Did you realize that Facebook knew so much about you? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
An app from Wolfram Alpha analyzes your Facebook profile and spits out revealing details about your account and friends.