A lot of people are on to them exposing you to only certain posts..Here is why Facebook is more than just a social network; it is also officially an online science laboratory. The company has revealed in a research paper that it carried out a weeklong experiment that affected nearly 700,000 users to test the effects of transferring emotion online. The news feeds belonging to 689,003 users of the English language version were altered to see “whether exposure to emotions led people to change their own posting behaviors,” Facebook says. There was one track for those receiving more positive posts and another for those who were exposed to more emotionally negative content from their friends. Posts themselves were not affected and could still be viewed from friends’ profiles, but the trial instead edited what the guinea pig users saw in their news feed, which itself is governed by a selective algorithm, as brands frustrated by the system can attest to.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:57:32 +0000
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