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Never forget that Facebook has "tweaked" its newsfeed to specifically make hundreds of thousands of people feel sad and depressed for days or months, just to se
by cryptoz 9y ago
Never forget that Facebook has "tweaked" its newsfeed to specifically make hundreds of thousands of people feel sad and depressed for days or months, just to see if they could. And then they bragged about how great they are in a published paper that violated all ethics and morals worldwide.
Why will I see less video, and more from friends? Because I won't be on facebook.
Edit: From FTA:
> But the other is a lot of the research that we've done and the research that's out there in the field and in academia that we've read suggests that online interacting with people is positively correlated with a lot of measures of well-being, whereas passively consuming media content online is less so.
They do their own research on users, by modifying their news feed and measuring their emotions with sentiment analysis. You are not just a product they sell, you are also a product they experiment on. It's not worth it.
Edit 2: On the secret psychological experiments that Facebook executes to torture your mind: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
The real kicker, is that by using Facebook they argue that you give consent to them to conduct unlimited psychological experiments on you in secret.
> It argued that its 1.28 billion monthly users gave blanket consent to the company’s research as a condition of using the service.
- officemonkey 9y ago"Contagious" by Jonah Berger talks about how anger and anxiety makes people share memes. I find that Facebook and the organizations that use it are NOT interested in my mental health. They're interested in triggering my sharing response. I quit FB and my mental health improved. I don't mind using Goodreads because Amazon and I have the same goal: they want me to buy and read books, and guess what? So do I.
- tzakrajs 9y agoI also have experience a drop in my basal anxiety since cutting out Facebook. I also learned, since being gone for a month or so, that many of those people aren't really interested in talking with me if it takes leaving the Facebook ecosystem. They can stay. Good riddance to all of it.
- officemonkey 9y agoIt also turns out that group text messaging is included on your phone. So anyone you _really_ want to talk to is _always_ nearby.