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> It will take him 886 days to lose them all

Careful, there: http://xkcd.com/605/

http://xkcd.com/605/

The decay looks linear at a glance, but I'd expect it to be exponential on a larger time scale. Time will tell :)

Edit: wanna bet?

It is exponential, I've been getting data for a day or so. Graph on http://moinnadeem.com/romneylikes

I just want to say thanks for linking my website, awesome!

Well, I'm sure his mom still wants to be friends.

Also, Obama's second term doesn't start until January 20, Romney will have been long forgotten by then.

Forgotten doesn't exactly mean "unliked" though. Unless whatever pages I hit "like" on in some situation make lots of noise, my "like"s are near-permanent - I probably won't even remember it's there. If they do make noise, it really needs to be enough to be seriously annoying before I bother unliking.

Of course, I didn't like his page, but I'm probably not that atypical. A lot of people use facebook once in a great while and make almost no effort to keep their page up to date, reflective of current friends, etc.