Do you mind if facebook experiments with your emotions? Facebook is facing criticism after it emerged it had conducted a psychology experiment on nearly 700,000 users without their knowledge. Facebook researchers manipulated news feeds to control which emotional expressions the users were exposed to from their friends posts, positive or negative. This is Dan Damon with World Update, getting more detail on this story. If facebook uses research like that to learn how to keep you on the page and so can help advertisers focus on the kinds of things you might want to buy, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Do you feel your emotions and responses are being shaped too much by unseen forces?
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:48:24 +0000
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