Did you hear about this? Facebook may have been attempting to manipulate your emotions in the name of research. Facebook’s data scientists manipulated the News Feeds of 689,003 users, removing either all of the positive posts or all of the negative posts to see how it affected their moods. If there was a week in January 2012 where you were only seeing photos of dead dogs or incredibly cute babies, you may have been part of the study. Now that the experiment is public, people’s mood about the study itself would best be described as negative.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:41:34 +0000