How Social Information Networks Reflect Major Life Events: Case of Childbirth

Social information networks, such as Twitter and Facebook provide powerful tools for individuals to share thoughts, opinions, and emotions as well as to create and maintain social ties. Considerable research in the recent past has focused on the understanding of large-scale social processes enabled by the availability of data derived from content and activity on social networks, spanning multiple domains including finance, politics, epidemiology and public health, marketing, and crisis mitigation.