Facebook's new Lexicon feature (free Facebook membership required) graphs the popularity of terms used by Facebook members over time. For example, a search for the term "hangover" shows an unsurprising spike on January 1st:

Looks like there is a recurring weekly hangover problem as well. And additional spikes for the days after St Patrick's Day and Halloween.

So, what is this Scrabulous vs Fired graph telling us:

Is the popular online Scrabble game hurting the economy?

And are bachelor parties doing more to break people up than bring them together?

I'll try to investigate further once I've played a few games to Scrabulous to help me recover from a hangover. :-)

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