Facebook is receiving negative attention following a controversial mood altering experiment that was conducted on randomly selected users. While it is no secret Facebook occasionally ‘adjusts’ the news feed of their users’ — customizing advertisements, photos, and posts that appear closer to the top of the page —have they taken privacy invasion too far?
Last week, Facebook released information regarding their psychological experiment, but has been receiving furious backlash from users since then, turning to other forms of social media to express their disappointment in Facebook’s lack of respect for personal privacy.
In the wake of both the Snowden stuff and the Cuba twitter stuff, the Facebook "transmission of anger" experiment is terrifying.
— Clay Johnson (@cjoh) June 28, 2014
Facebook ran an experiment to see if their platform could manipulate users emotions. I'm livid. Then elated. Then scared. Then livid again!
— Geek Cadet (@GeekCadet) June 30, 2014
The study was conducted in the hopes of being able to improve the experience of the user, has raised issues because never explicitly agreed to participate in the study — most didn’t even know it was happening. While the experiment has officially concluded, users are waiting by to discover whether or not Facebook will think twice about altering news feeds, gathering personal data, and conducting experiments on their users in the future.
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