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Facebook Conducts Psych Testing on Users

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Did you have a Facebook account in 2012?  If so you may have, without your knowledge, been a test subject for a psychological study.

The company routinely adjusts the user’s newsfeed with the number and type of ads they see, size of photos, etc. for the sake of creating a better product.  However, this is not what we are talking about here.  In 2012, Adam D.I. Kramer led a study in which nearly 700,000 test subjects (Facebook users) were given either additional negative posts or additional positive posts in their individual newsfeeds via algorithm.  This was allegedly done to see how the positive or negative nature of the additional posts would affect the tone of the posts of the test subjects.

Unfortunately, none of the test subjects were notified of this.  In fact, this study only recently came to light.

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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