The Law of Attraction Proved by the company Facebook!! What you focus on grows. If you havent heard of the recent facebook controversy on the news Ive posted content from a recent Business Insiders article below. In the article it speaks of research done on how the content viewed on facebook news feeds contributes to peoples emotions positively and negatively. People who see positive posts in their news feeds tend to post more positive status updates and content than those who view more negative news feeds. Check out the article below and feel free to leave your opinions in the comments section. Clips directly from the article: The test was designed to test a prevailing meme at the time: The hypothesis that the upbeat tone of the content people shared and saw on Facebook, all those likes and friends and happy group photos, might be causing people in the real world to be depressed—in the same way, presumably, that Photoshopped cover models are thought to make real people insecure and unhappy about their normality. Facebooks data scientists designed a clever way to test this theory. They set up a word filter to evaluate all the posts that were eligible to be placed in each users News Feed and then they tweaked the selection algorithm so that some users got slightly more positive content and others got slightly more negative content. Then the scientists used the word filter to compare the posts of users who saw more positive content with those who saw more negative content. Rather than being depressed that their lives didnt measure up to those of the happy people on Facebook, the users who saw slightly more positive content actually posted slightly more positive status updates. The users who saw slightly more negative content, meanwhile, posted slightly more negative updates. In other words, far from getting depressed by the happiness portrayed on Facebook, people seemed to find the upbeat mood modestly infectious. And vice versa.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 23:48:45 +0000
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