Emotions can spread among online social users

[Still Waters]

When it hasn't been your day - your week, your month, or even your year - it might be time to turn to Facebook friends for a little positive reinforcement. Emotions can spread contagiously among users of online social networks, both positive and negative, researchers report.

The experiment is the first to suggest that emotions expressed via online social networks influence the moods of others, they say.

http://www.scienceda...40613142533.htm

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The experiment is the first to suggest that emotions expressed via online social networks influence the moods of others, they say.

Wait, they're trying to say that humans expressing their emotions to other humans can influence moods, even when the humans can't see each other?

[Mikko-kun]

This is the first time I've googled a no shut sherlock image...

[Space Commander Travis]

When it hasn't been your day - your week, your month, or even your year - it might be time to turn to Facebook friends for a little positive reinforcement. Emotions can spread contagiously among users of online social networks, both positive and negative, researchers report.

The experiment is the first to suggest that emotions expressed via online social networks influence the moods of others, they say.

http://www.scienceda...40613142533.htm

This makes me very happy.

See, it works.

[JGirl]

i hope that no one paid for this research