Will avoiding Facebook make you a happier person? An experiment to quit Facebook for three months, started as a joke, is gaining momentum. Facebook’s emotional manipulation and content alteration blossomed into a social experiment The idea that started as a humorous undertone inside a small European advertising agency regarding Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s emotional manipulation study and content alteration blossomed into a full blown social experiment. “Like a lot of Facebook users, many of us were bothered by reports of secret mood experiments,” said Just Art Director Merijn Straathof. “As we discussed it internally, we noted an interesting tendency: Everyone had…
Study Encourages People To Quit Facebook for 99 Days
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.