Lexicon

Facebook has posted a new feature section. You can find it at: www.facebook.com/lexicon/

This is Facebook's attempt at taking a sample in quantity of every word that is used on its site for every day of the year. you can search any word and it will give you a graph for a whole year of how much that word has been used. so naturally I thought "Jesus."

The graph shows a peak on December 25 and a general high during the Christmas season; it also show a peak at about half the size of the first on the 23rd of march 08 (Easter) and a general high during the Easter season.

More interesting to observe on this than the highs, were the lows. My next thought was "Theology"

The three lowest spikes seem to be, again, in the Christmas season (with the 25th completely dropping off the chart); the Easter season with a smaller drop, November and thanksgiving, and the second lowest drop (next to Christmas) goes to July 4th! This basically means that the chatter on this site about Jesus peaks at a point where chatter about theology seems to drop off the charts, or holds steady when the conversation about theology dies. hehehehe

Now if your wondering about the state of the moral depravity of facebookers ok I also discovered that you can compare two words and apparently the lack of theology when discussing Jesus is a normal activity for Facebook.
This is of course not a formal study or a comprehensive sample. I just found it interesting and humorous. So if this ever becomes a chain email then you know where it was said first.

-Scott