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Facebook researcher: 'We care about the emotional impact of Facebook' |
June 30, 2014
A Facebook researcher behind a controversial psychology experiment on users has defended the research, saying it was aimed at looking into a common concern that seeing friends post positive content on the social networking website leads people to feel negative or left out.
The researchers were also concerned that exposure to friends’ negativity might lead people to avoid visiting Facebook. “We didn’t clearly state our motivations in the paper,” researcher Adam D.I. Kramer wrote on his Facebook page Sunday.
“The reason we did this research is because we care about the emotional impact of Facebook and the people that use our product,” Kramer wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2449040/facebook-researcher-defends-controversial-psychology-experiment-on-users.html#tk.rss_all
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