Facebook Knows
What Makes Women
Miserable
Here's one
tangible upside
to society's
dysfunctional
love affair with
Facebook: The
social network
has so much
information on
people's moods
and activities
that it can now
predict how
you'll feel
after you do
something.
Facebook data
science manager
- yes, that job
exists - Cameron
Marlow tells the
San Francisco
Chronicle that
female Facebook
users generally
become less
happy after they
become engaged,
but cheer up to
new levels of
happiness after
marriage - when
the men promptly
become more
negative.
Says the MIT
doctorate
holder, "These
fit the gender
stereotypes so
perfectly that
it's almost
uncanny."
Further
confirmation of
conventional
wisdom: Though
women fare
better, open
relationships
suck for pretty
much everyone,
reducing
positive
feelings 15
percent compared
with being
single.
Facebook also
thinks it's
close to being
able to predict
whether you'll
like certain day
to day
activities.
Which sounds
creepy, but not
nearly as creepy
as it is when
you consider how
sloppy Facebook
is with your
personal data
and how reckless
the company is
about privacy
controls.
On the other
hand, if
Facebook can
prevent you from
wasting
irrecoverable
hours of your
life on terrible
installments of
Real Housewives
of New Jersey or
of the Iron Man
movie franchise,
maybe it's all
worth it.
[Photo by
James Peragine/Shutterstock.com] |
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