Irritating shit on facebook

[ezza]

loooool yes yes

theres more. what the fuck is 'Lofl' 'lol on floor laughing'

[m8son666]

looool that last comment

[rockonin]

She must have a bucket fanny already. No tread left on the tyres

[skimpi]

hahaahaah, comedy gold!

[skimpi]

hahaha

[particle-jim]

jesus christ

[rockonin]

Why does this existence allow people like that to procreate

[therapist]

I just wish I could understand a little bit more of it.

[Kochari]

you fuckin rubbish grr

[faultier]

For one week in 2012 -- and without the explicit consent or knowledge of users -- Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place posts into their news feeds to study how this affected their mood.

The researchers wanted to see if the number of positive, or negative, words in messages they read affected whether users then posted positive or negative content in their status updates.

The study, conducted by researchers affiliated with Facebook, Cornell University, and the University of California at San Francisco, appeared in the June 17 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Results of the study spread -- and with it anger and disbelief -- when the online magazine Slate and The Atlantic website wrote about it on Saturday.

"Emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness," the study authors wrote.

"These results indicate that emotions expressed by others on Facebook influence our own emotions, constituting experimental evidence for massive-scale contagion via social networks."

While other research has used metadata to study trends, this appears to be unique because it manipulated the data to see if there was a reaction.

Facebook, which says that it has more than one billion active users, said a statement: "This research was conducted for a single week in 2012 and none of the data used was associated with a specific person's Facebook account.

"We do research to improve our services and to make the content people see on Facebook as relevant and engaging as possible.

"A big part of this is understanding how people respond to different types of content, whether it's positive or negative in tone, news from friends, or information from pages they follow. We carefully consider what research we do and have a strong internal review process."

In the paper, the researchers said the study "was consistent with Facebook's Data Use Policy, to which all users agree prior to creating an account on Facebook."

But that did nothing to stem the growing anger of Facebook users.

"#Facebook MANIPULATED USER FEEDS FOR MASSIVE PSYCH EXPERIMENT... Yeah, time to close FB acct!" read one Twitter posting.

Other tweets used words like "super disturbing," "creepy" and "evil," as well as angry expletives, to describe the psychological experiment.

Susan Fiske, a Princeton University professor who edited the report for publication, told The Atlantic that she was concerned about the research and contacted the authors.

Fiske said the authors allayed her concerns, saying they had received approval from a ethics review board before conducting the experiment.

Nevertheless, Fiske admitted to being "a little creeped out" by the study.

[Reese_Liar]

Out of all the fucked up shit facebook does, I can't believe that this is what gets people to protest

[Phigure]

yeah seriously, selling your data is just fine, but tweaking the news feed algorithm for a week is CLEARLY crossing the line

[SignalRecon]

yeah seriously, selling your data is just fine, but tweaking the news feed algorithm for a week is CLEARLY crossing the line

Someone get Tommy Taylor on this case.He'll prob alter Zuckerbergs face proper over this yea? Holy fuck agent where do you find these people irl?

[ezza]

paradise bro

[RKM]

kidderminster seems like somewhere martin sheen would pass in the boat on his way to find colonel kurtz

[_ronzlo_]

Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s Controversial Emotion Experiment



More.

[bennyfroobs]

hahaha

lmfaoooooo


also

this is why kids shouldnt have kids


look at that guys face man he looks about eight and he still lives with his parents

his son is better off without him

[rockonin]

hahaha

Can't decide who is more retarded, Tommy or the 3 people that decrypted his status and liked it.

[Johnlenham]

I feel dirty even posting it but that what having the uks worst radio station on at work, 8 hurs a day for 37.5 hrs a week does to you


I presume it this.

[rockonin]

A video on Facebook has been gone viral in the last few hours of a British girl in Magaluf giving 24 guys head for a free drink.

The video is online, you'll have to find it yourself