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> the problem with social is us. No. Facebook proudly does specific psychological experiments on its users. Facebook intentionally decides that it will make so
by cryptoz 9y ago
> the problem with social is us.
No. Facebook proudly does specific psychological experiments on its users. Facebook intentionally decides that it will make some users sad or depressed, just to see if it can. And it can. And it is proud of it. Facebook is proud that it knows how to make you depressed, so much so that they published a paper describing how they made hundreds of thousands of their users fall into a depression.
Facebook is a fucking poison. The problem is not with us. The problem is with large scale propaganda networks and centrally-controlled social networks with misaligned incentives. The problem is Facebook and the core problem is the structure and incentives of corporations in our current not-well-enough-regulated capitalism.
- lorenzq 9y ago[citation needed]
- pkalinowski 9y agoThat's actually very interesting, never heard of it. Can you link the paper? Or did you just made that all up, hmm?
- wongmjane 9y agoEmotional contagion through social networks Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, Jeffrey T. Hancock Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jun 2014, 111 (24) 8788-8790; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320040111 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111
- pkalinowski 9y agoThanks. I'm aware of this report and it's definitely awful what they did and they should be shamed for many years forward. But there is big difference between comparing moods induced by negativity and "Facebook is proud that it knows how to make you depressed, so much so that they published a paper describing how they made hundreds of thousands of their users fall into a depression." OP statement is misleading and tabloid worthy. The goal was not to cause depression. It lasted one week and they didn't try make someone depressed or kill him.