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"  Photo: Getty Over the weekend, furor erupted on Twitter about another social media giant&amp;#039;s deceptive tactics. Last week, Facebook revealed that they have been playing with our hearts, literally by manipulating our news feeds, controlling the number of positive and negative posts we saw for one week back in January 2012.  And people were pissed:    Get off Facebook. Get your family off Facebook. If you work there, quit. They&amp;#039;re fucking awful. \u2014 Erin Kissane (@kissane) June 28, 2014       In the wake of both the Snowden stuff and the Cuba twitter stuff, the Facebook &amp;quot;transmission of anger&amp;quot; experiment is terrifying. \u2014 Clay Johnson (@cjoh) June 28, 2014    In the study, researchers analyzed more than 3 million posts, containing over 122 million words: 4 million were positive and 1.8 million were negative. People who saw more positive posts responded by writing more positive posts, and the same is true for the reverse. &amp;quot;These results suggest that the emotions expressed by friends, via online social networks, influence our own moods,&amp;quot; said the researchers of the study. So, basically, moods can be contagious, and in this particular case, completely rely on your network of friends.  Though this might feel like an invasion of privacy, what Facebook did was technically legal because we&amp;#039;ve already given our consent by agreeing to the site&amp;#039;s privacy policy. Maybe, all this anguish will lead to a mass deactivation of Facebook profiles across the globe in protest! Or, more likely, we&amp;#039;ll see a lot of negative posts about how evil Facebook is hit our feeds, which will lead us to feel all negative and post about it, which will lead to...well, you get it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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