Facebook Says Michiganders Are Most Thankful For ...

The Facebook Data Science Team peeked at ubiquitous challenges posed by users in its state-by-state ranking of the things users are most grateful or thankful for. Michiganders love their electricity. (Photo via Creative Commons)

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Thanksgiving is over, but the season of thankfulness has just begun.

Across the country, that means different things to different people. The Facebook Data Science Team marked Thanksgiving by analyzing anonymized, aggregate data from English-speaking users in the U.S. to determine what they were most thankful for.

The data came from ubiquitous challenges Facebook users issue to their friends to name things they’re thankful for; friends, family and health were among the top responses,

But in Michigan, the No. 1 thing residents are thankful for? Electricity.

Facebook thinks that’s because heavy summer storms knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of houses as data were being collected.

New Yorkers are thankful for their apartments, those on the Eastern seaboard for the beach, Oregonians for yoga, and much of the South for religion and God.

Tell Us:

• So, what are you most thankful for?

» Read more about the results here.