Interesting, Facebook carried out an "experiment" to see how much control it actually had people. Since I quti playing a game on there quite a while ago, I hardly ever get on it anymore and when I do it's usually to get a chuckle from all the meme pages I subscribe to(it's where I get a majority of the ones I post in the delete thread).
"Facebook attempted to toy with the emotions of nearly 700,000 of its users under the guise of science, reminding users once again they are more product than customer, experts said.
Anger erupted this past weekend over a study in which what could be termed the social media company's "Emotions Lab" tweaked the News Feeds of some of its users, but the study isn't new. In 2012, Facebook’s data science team wanted to nail an answer to a query still common among academic and marketing researchers, not to mention users: Can Facebook make you happy or sad?...
To figure it out, the group secretly altered News Feed algorithms of the test subjects for one week, ensuring one group saw mostly positive posts, the other, mostly negative. Earlier, some experts had suspected that seeing other users post the best parts of their own lives would make people feel left out. The counter-intuitive results, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March, found that a positive News Feed inspired positive posts from the test subjects, and vice versa. For Facebook users, however, the real revelation of the study was learning they were all potential lab rats to the world’s largest social network. "
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facebook-manipulates-emotions-business-usual-social-media-giant-n144811
"Facebook attempted to toy with the emotions of nearly 700,000 of its users under the guise of science, reminding users once again they are more product than customer, experts said.
Anger erupted this past weekend over a study in which what could be termed the social media company's "Emotions Lab" tweaked the News Feeds of some of its users, but the study isn't new. In 2012, Facebook’s data science team wanted to nail an answer to a query still common among academic and marketing researchers, not to mention users: Can Facebook make you happy or sad?...
To figure it out, the group secretly altered News Feed algorithms of the test subjects for one week, ensuring one group saw mostly positive posts, the other, mostly negative. Earlier, some experts had suspected that seeing other users post the best parts of their own lives would make people feel left out. The counter-intuitive results, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March, found that a positive News Feed inspired positive posts from the test subjects, and vice versa. For Facebook users, however, the real revelation of the study was learning they were all potential lab rats to the world’s largest social network. "
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facebook-manipulates-emotions-business-usual-social-media-giant-n144811
