{"id":1229,"date":"2014-07-03T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2018-06-26T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:04:27","slug":"facebook-manipulates-over-600k-news-feeds-for-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/facebook-manipulates-over-600k-news-feeds-for-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Manipulates over 600K News Feeds for Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Not_facebook_dislike_thumbs_down.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1277 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Not_facebook_dislike_thumbs_down-150x150.png\" alt=\"facebook studies users \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has caused ripples in the social media community once again, after mainpulating\u00a0users\u2019 news feeds to study\u00a0how social media posts affect people\u2019s emotions. The study has since been published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/111\/24\/8788.full.pdf\" class=\"external external_icon\" rel=\"nofollow\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a> by Facebook researcher Adam Kramer, Jeffrey Hancock from Cornell University, and Jamie Guillory from University of California at San Francisco. The study found that Facebook posts do in fact affect the emotional state of the reader.<\/p>\n<p>This study didn\u2019t go over well with Facebook users, as the company\u00a0is known for its gray areas in regards to\u00a0its privacy policies. However, Facebook says\u00a0in the study that it states in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/legal\/terms\" class=\"external external_icon\" rel=\"nofollow\">terms of service<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/about\/privacy\/\" class=\"external external_icon\" rel=\"nofollow\">privacy policy<\/a> that it has the right to use information gathered from the social media site and its users.<\/p>\n<p>To conduct the study, Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebooks-mood-study-how-you-became-the-guinea-pig\/\" class=\"external external_icon\" rel=\"nofollow\">manipulated<\/a> 689,003 of its users\u2019 feeds to reflect certain emotions. So, to see if someone would become angrier when exposed to angry statuses, Facebook tweaked the user\u2019s feed to show a majority of angry statuses. Users were never notified of their participation, which has caused an uproar among the participants and Facebook critics alike.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Facebook\u2019s privacy policies remain in question. In the past, Facebook has acted first and then sent public apologies later. \u00a0Critics believe this situation will be no different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has caused ripples in the social media community once again, after mainpulating\u00a0users\u2019 news feeds to study\u00a0how social media posts affect people\u2019s emotions. 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