The Facebook just released the evidence that something called “emotional contamination” works just as well through your News Feed. The data came from a research which he carried out by "playing" with the emotion of random users, 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.
They then used this information to influence the sentiment of 689.003 users for a week. Some 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 each user has agreed to it enrollment του σε πάρα πολλά που δεν γνωρίζει κάν. Ποιος διαβάζει με προσοχή και αναλύει τους όρους χρήσης της υπηρεσίας πριν συμφωνήσει;
So, the next time you use Facebook, do not be surprised if you start to feel happy, sad, angry,
