Positive emotions are more easily spread via Facebook than negative

TIME just led the results of a new study by the University of California San Diego (USA), said positive emotions are easily spread on Facebook rather than negative emotions.

James Fowler, a professor of genetics and political science at the University of California San Diego, who has a lot of research on the spread of emotions and social habits has found that habits and emotions are like Eating, smoking, loneliness and even generosity are likely to spread in a group of friends in the real world. He said: 'I used to think that there is no such phenomenon in the online world.'

However, he thought he was wrong.According to him, the emotions spread on Facebook are the same with an amazing level.

When analyzing data from 100 million Facebook users posting nearly a billion statuses from 2009 to 2012, Fowler and his colleagues discovered that every emotion expressed online will lead to 1 to 2 states with similar feelings. That means that emotion has spread to others.

Mr. Fowler and his team focused on studying the mood and emotions between Facebook friends. They sought to determine whether a person was sad and a person who was happy living apart from each other had an impact on each other.

As a result, if your friend is feeling happy while you are feeling sad, you will be able to feel a little happier and show it in more positive moods on Facebook.

In contrast to previous studies that suggest that Facebook makes us feel bored, this study has shown that each status posted to a positive mood will reduce the number of negative states of friends. they come almost 2 times, while each negative state will only reduce the positive status to 1.3 times.

According to Fowler, research results show that social networking has a good impact, at least for our mood.

"The online world has enabled us to express our emotions in a way that has never been before. We connect with friends of friends, with people we know only a little," said Fowler . .