Facebook Emotions affect your mood, new Study relealed

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Could a happy or depress post on Facebook control your own mood? it seems that so, according to a new study conducted by the social networking company.

When Facebook delete positive posts from the information feeds of more than 680,000 users, those users made less positive posts and extra negative ones. Similarly, when negative posts were removed, the opposite occurred.it means Facebook Emotions affect your mood

"These results point out that emotions uttered by others on Facebook control our own emotions," the authors wrote in the study published  in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Game of  moods

 The thought that emotional states can spread among people without their understanding, known as emotional infection, has been shown before in laboratory experiments. One study start that lasting moods such as sadness and joy can be transferred via a real-world social network, but the findings have been controversial because it was based on cor-relational proof and could not rule out other possible variables.

Without analysis the text of the real posts, the researchers used linguistic and word-counting software to determine whether a post was negative or positive. Then they detached a percentage of either positive or negative posts from users' timelines.

On average, about double as many posts contain positive words (47 percent) as contained negative words (22 percent), so the researchers detached a relative number of posts of each kind. For example, they might remove 4.7 percent of the positive posts for one person, and about 2.2 percent of the negative posts for a new.yes the Facebook Emotions affect your mood

Then, the researchers calculated the percentage of positive or negative words each study member used in that persons own posts during the trial. The team analyzed more than 3 million posts containing more than 122 million words — four million positive words and 1.8 million negative ones.

They found that people who had positive words removed from their News Feeds made less positive posts and more negative ones, while people who had negative words detached made less negative posts and more positive ones.

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Peoples show  emotions

 The result propose that emotional infection can occur in an online social network, even without face-to-face dealings between two people. "We show that simply failing to 'overhear' a friend’s emotional appearance via Facebook is enough to buffer one from its effects," the authors wrote.

What's more, nonverbal activities, or body language, doesn't show to be essential for emotions to extend, the study showed. Text alone was sufficient to have an result.