Study finds that anger spreads further than joy on social networks

[snowComet]

It maybe obviously to some, but a research from Beihang University in China suggested that comments with anger could have a higher degree of impact on social networks than other emotions. Those researchers use Weibo, China's twitter as an example, which they collected some 70 million posts from 200,000 users . 

 

 

 

During the research period, a typical bitter comment would affect posts three degrees removed from the original; joy had a muted impact, while disgust and sadness hardly got any traction.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/16/study-finds-that-anger-spreads-further-on-social-networks/

 

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519306/most-influential-emotions-on-social-networks-revealed/

[Coombzy]

they did a study on that of course its like that...

[helping]

they did a study on that of course its like that...

QFT

 

Why did they need the study for? lol This result could have been extrapolated from basic psychology.

 

This is like conducting an experiment when you already know the outcome. I can maybe see why if they really just wanted to generate numerical support.

[Guest]

Everyone that uses social networks already knows this...

[Matsy]

Joy is an illusion.

It's just a mask people wear to hide the anger.  Sometimes that mask is broken to reveal what is under-neigh.

[LonliestofAll]

SO TRUE!!

 

I have seen this everywhere, but was it really necessary to do a study.

[Warcony]

Yep this was pretty obvious, but what I think is interesting is the effects of the increasing use of social media these days.  I feel that with all the social media these days people, in general, have become more easy to anger.

 

EDIT: people get angry at other people's joy, social media provides the platform for this to take place.

[M-ursu]

Guys, just remember this: