I'm sad to report that people are feeling manipulated by this study

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

It's too bad that commentators are feeling "creeped out" by the Facebook study:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/even-the-editor-of-
facebooks-mood-study-thought-it-was-creepy/373649/

What's really depressing is not that Facebook users feel manipulated, but that they 
don't realize that Facebook is constantly modifying what they see.  I don't do 
much on Facebook, but I find the email notifications I get from it bizarre.  Why 
*don't* I get notifications of some things?  Why *do* I get the ones I do?

(And I'm quite sure Facebook's algorithms are starting to work me out, to an 
extent, because the notifications I *am* getting are becoming more "interesting," 
in that I am more frequently responding and going to Facebook to check the 
posting as a result.  Now *that's* creepy.)

Bummer.

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