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06-08-2017, 02:02 PM
Facebook patents show multiple ways the network could harness our emotions
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Social media has been k**wn to mess with our emotions (http://mashable.com/2017/05/21/social-media-self-esteem-protection/) and even affect our mental health (http://mashable.com/2017/05/19/instagram-wellbeing-young-people/) — and that manipulation is sometimes by design.*
Facebook, in particular, has been k**wn to play fast and loose with its users feelings. Troubling news broke last month that the network's targeted ads were sometimes designed (http://mashable.com/2017/05/02/facebook-ad-targeting-by-mood/) to prey on teenage users' perceived insecurities, which isn't entirely surprising given teens' tendency to air out their feelings online (http://mashable.com/2017/05/03/teens-sharing-emotions-online/).
Tech analytics firm CB Insights unearthed a trio of Facebook patents (https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/facebook-emotion-patents-analysis/) focused on harnessing the emotions of its users published by the US Patent and Trademark ****** (USPTO). The applications are mostly focused on predicting the ways we react to what we see online and how we communicate. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/08/facebook-emotion-patents/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Social media has been k**wn to mess with our emotions (http://mashable.com/2017/05/21/social-media-self-esteem-protection/) and even affect our mental health (http://mashable.com/2017/05/19/instagram-wellbeing-young-people/) — and that manipulation is sometimes by design.*
Facebook, in particular, has been k**wn to play fast and loose with its users feelings. Troubling news broke last month that the network's targeted ads were sometimes designed (http://mashable.com/2017/05/02/facebook-ad-targeting-by-mood/) to prey on teenage users' perceived insecurities, which isn't entirely surprising given teens' tendency to air out their feelings online (http://mashable.com/2017/05/03/teens-sharing-emotions-online/).
Tech analytics firm CB Insights unearthed a trio of Facebook patents (https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/facebook-emotion-patents-analysis/) focused on harnessing the emotions of its users published by the US Patent and Trademark ****** (USPTO). The applications are mostly focused on predicting the ways we react to what we see online and how we communicate. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/08/facebook-emotion-patents/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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