The Facebook has just published the evidence that states that what is called “emotional contamination” works just as well through your News Feed. The data came from a survey he conducted "playing" with the emotion of random users by serving selected "news" in their News Feed.
Well you read. OR research study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, says that Facebook researchers wanted to understand if the feelings we face face-to-face can also be experienced digitally. So the team created an algorithm that analyzed the words of News Feed publications. So they could categorize posts that produced positive and negative emotions.
Αμέσως μετά χρησιμοποίησαν αυτές τις πληροφορίες για να επηρεάσουν το συναίσθημα 689.003 χρηστών για μια εβδομάδα. Ορισμένοι users they had a News Feed with posts that evoked negative emotions and others just the opposite.
The findings of the survey may seem very interesting. For the first time, we have statistics that show that social media affect our emotions in a way that resembles human interaction.
Of course, it is very creepy to learn later that Facebok used so many regular users as subjects of a psychological experiment without ever having to know it.
Of course, Facebook's privacy policy covers the company, since every user has agreed by signing up to a lot that they don't know. Who's reading me caution and analyze the terms of service before agreeing?
So, the next time you use Facebook, do not be surprised if you start to feel happy, sad, angry,
