#facebook experiment

Over the weekend, Facebook admitted to altering hundreds of thousands of Facebook users’ news feed in order to conduct a psychological experiment all the way since 2012. However, the company explained the reason behind this experiment. The experiment was done to determine if social media affects people’s emotions based on what they see on their news feed. "The reason we did this research is because we care about the emotional impact of Facebook and the people that use our product," says Adam Kramer, Facebook data scientist and co-author of the study. At the same time, we were concerned that exposure to friends' negativity might lead people to avoid visiting Facebook." That was mainly their worry and the findings showed otherwise – what people post affects the kind of entries we make. "Having written and designed this experiment myself, I can tell you that our goal was never to upset anyone," says Kramer. After seeing the side of Facebook, what ‘s your personal take about this research? Update: In Facebook's defense, the company claims that "research" is one of the things included in Facebook's Terms of Use prior to making an account. Read more in our articles including "Why Facebook experimented and altered 689,000 news feeds" and "Facebook launches Your Profile, Your Home game".