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February 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Yen Lee is the founder and president of Uptake, a social travel company that pairs personalized recommendations from friends with an extensive, searchable catalog of expert and consumer travel insights.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, check out the world’s most romantic cities — according to Facebook, that is.
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My travel planning company dove into Facebook’s vast stream of status updates in order to bring you the top U.S. cities where couples are getting engaged (and subsequently talking about it on Facebook). Perhaps these cities are more romantic than the rest, or maybe they just put something in the drinking water – in any case, check out this list and see if a proposal is more likely to come your way this Valentine’s!
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Technology behind the data: My company analyzed over 29 million Facebook status updates in our database for excerpts and phrases related to “engagement.” Then, we created a list of cities by mapping the resulting text to users’ locations. Finally, we ordered this list according to frequency of occurrence.
1. Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia may be on their collective mind, but Atlanta Facebook users have love in their hearts and engagement on their lips — the marrying kind.
Maybe it’s the southern charm, or all those peaches, but people in Atlanta are thinking sweet and kindly these days; they’re just as likely to propose to the one they love as they are to dance the dirty bird.
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This story originally published on Mashable here.
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