The Social Path

Happy National Rebound Week! (Per Facebook, at least.)

Ah spring... love is in the air!

Oh wait, what's that? The bitter stench of rejection, heartbreak, beer and sunburns? It must be Spring Break!

The above chart isn't necessarily new, but it's relevant as Spring Break-bound college students all over the country prepare to party, and according to David McCandless, prepare to be single. 

According to their research of 10,000 Facebook status updates over a year, more breakups occur in the weeks leading up to and during Spring Break than any other time of the year. 

So cheer up, downheartened ladies and gents. If you got dumped before spring break you're definitely not alone. Maybe raise your glass a little less and your standards a lot more.

Kammie Avant is a social media planner for Luckie & Company. You can contact her by e-mail or follow @KammieAvant on Twitter.

Hat tip to Sharpton for providing the graph.

Nine social media Halloween costume ideas.

Struggling for a Halloween costume idea? Want to impress your friends with your subtle social media smarts? Sure, anyone can be a Facebook profile or YouTube video, but where's the innovation in that?

As a public service, The Social Path would like to offer a few ideas for your consideration:

1. Fail Whale

Step 1. Find a giant, smiling whale suit.

Step 2. Using durable wire, attach small fake birds over your head.

Step 3: Every time you walk into a party, turn out the lights.
 

2. The Social Media Demographic

Step 1: Be a female between the ages of 25-35.

Step 2: Confound the experts by only hanging out with people you already knew.
 

3. Naymz

Step 1: Spend all night telling strangers that they have unread messages in their inbox.

Step 2: Don’t get anywhere near me unless you want a punch in the neck.

4. Radian6  

Step 1: Keep a careful tally of how many people are at the party.

Step 2: Get paid handsomely and adored for your skill.

Step 3: Enjoy listening to dozens of others complain, “Hey wait, I can count too! Why aren’t you paying me?!”

5. Orkut

Step 1: Get asked repeatedly “who are you again?”

Step 2: Remind them that you work for Google.

Step 3: Stop wasting your time and just tell everyone you’re huge in Brazil.

6. News Blogger

Step 1: Walk around showing people today’s newspaper and ranting your opinions on it.

Step 2: Spend the rest of your time talking about how newspapers are boring, worthless and dying.
 

7. Social Media Expert

Step 1: Talk nonstop about how many friends you have and offer tips on how YOU TOO can have so many friends.

Step 2: Sit around wondering why no one wants to talk to you.
 

8. MySpace

Step 1: Wear a revealing but heavily BeDazzled outfit.

Step 2: Frustrate the popular kids by playing music better than anyone else.

Step 3: Occasionally set off fireworks in people’s faces and scream Linkin Park lyrics out of nowhere.
 

9. LinkedIn

Step 1: Dress like your dad.

Step 2: Act like your dad.

Of course, if you try any of these, please be sure to send us the photos. We would really, really love to hear how it goes.

Photo credits: Thomas van Ardenne and Cayusa on Flickr.