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> Facebook is the big bad social network that was caught playing with its users' feed to see how it would impact their mood. That is straight evil yet I would b
by arugulum 6y ago
> Facebook is the big bad social network that was caught playing with its users' feed to see how it would impact their mood. That is straight evil yet I would be willing to bet it never had any significant impact on their ad revenues.
How is this different from AB testing?
- belval 6y agoYeah maybe my words weren't nuanced enough, I don't have strong feeling regarding that particular event, but it caused outrage yet I'm sure there wasn't any significant impact to the revenue of Facebook.
- skinnymuch 6y agoYou said it’s straight evil. Isn’t that having strong feelings and not considering it simply A/B testing?
- belval 6y agoThe study itself was portrayed as evil by most mainstream media that covered it. That's what I meant and my perception of it doesn't matter to the point I was making. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-manipulated-users-moods-in-secret-experiment-9571004.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fa... "creeped out" https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/#1fa88cd4197c https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook... "disturbed" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-... "scandalous", "spooky" and "disturbing"