AMSTERDAM – There has been a lot of fuss lately about the psychological experiment that Facebook conducted on nearly 700,000 of its users. In order to gauge how people’s Facebook “News Feeds” affect their moods, the company temporarily implemented a new algorithm to display slightly more positive messages to some users, and slightly gloomier ones to others.
阿姆斯特丹——最近Facebook对其近700,000用户进行的心理实验已经引发了强烈的反响。为衡量Facebook“新消息”如何影响用户情绪，该公司临时设计了一种新算法，对部分用户显示相对积极的信息，而对另一部分用户则相反。事实证明，人们发帖的语气受到了朋友帖子的影响。