Can Facebook predict your breakup?

A new book claims founder Mark Zuckerberg used his site's data to forecast relationship collapses — is Facebook actively monitoring Americans' love lives?

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James: Did Facebook predict their demise?
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According to a new book, Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, discovered that his site could gauge the strength of a relationship, and used to amuse himself by forecasting romantic doom. In his insider expose, The Facebook Effect, which hits shelves June 15 and is being touted as "the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else," technology reporter David Kirkpatrick claims Zuckerberg knows a lot more about his audience than they might realize — including who they're about to break up with, and who they might date next.

How is that possible?

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