Table 2. Ranked relative frequency of words regarding spring break, travel, the pandemic, and outlook used in social media posts before the pandemic (2019) and throughout the pandemic period (2020–2022).
| Word | Year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||||
| Spring | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Break | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| #springbreak | 3 | ↓ | NR | ↑ | 3 | ↓ | NR |
| Miami | 4 | ↓ | 8 | ↑ | 4 | ↓ | 5 |
| Friends | 5 | ↓ | NR | NR | NR | ||
| Beach | 6 | ↓ | 7 | ↑ | 5 | ↑ | 4 |
| Florida | 7 | ↑ | 3 | ↓ | NR | NR | |
| Trip | 8 | ↓ | NR | NR | ↑ | 9 | |
| College | 9 | ↓ | NR | ↑ | 7 | ↓ | 8 |
| Students | 10 | ↑ | 5 | ↓ | NR | NR | |
| coronavirus | NR | ↑ | 4 | ↓ | NR | NR | |
| Positive | NR | ↑ | 6 | ↓ | NR | NR | |
| Test | NR | ↑ | 9 | ↓ | NR | NR | |
| distancing | NR | ↑ | 10 | ↓ | NR | NR | |
| Covid | NR | NR | ↑ | 6 | ↓ | NR | |
| Cases | NR | NR | ↑ | 8 | ↓ | NR | |
| pandemic | NR | NR | ↑ | 9 | ↓ | NR | |
| Surge | NR | NR | ↑ | 10 | ↓ | NR | |
| School | NR | NR | NR | ↑ | 3 | ||
| Fun | NR | NR | NR | ↑ | 6 | ||
| Happy | NR | NR | NR | ↑ | 7 | ||
| Enjoy | NR | NR | NR | ↑ | 10 | ||
Words are ranked one through ten, where one is the most frequently used; words that were not in the top ten that year were denoted with NR (Not Ranked). Green up arrows indicate that a word was used relatively more frequently than the year before, while a red down arrow indicates that a word was used relatively less frequently than the year before.