Social networking sites generating a lot of anger, researchers saySeptember 18, 2013 - 14:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Social networking sites are generating a lot of anger, according to a study from researchers at China's Beihang University. TechEye reports that the study conducted by Rui Fan, Jichang Zhao, Yan Chen, and Ke Xu, examined human emotions on China's Twitter-like micro-blogging site Sina Weibo. They found that anger spreads faster and wider than other emotions like joy. It suggests that posts you write out of anger will have more impact than those expressing happiness. If a user sent an angry message, researchers looked at how likely the recipients were to also send out an angry message or retweet the same emotion. After reading 70 million messages from 200,000 users of Weibo, they determined the sentiment of each by analysing emoticons. The correlation of anger among users was significantly higher than that of joy, which indicates that angry emotions could spread more quickly and broadly in the network, the study said. However, the correlation of sadness was surprisingly low and highly fluctuated. The closer you are to a poster, the stronger the "sentiment correlation". Users with larger number of friends have more significant sentiment influence to their neighbourhoods. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Armenian Catholicos calls for national unity against threats Karekin II issued a message on Republic Day marking the anniversary of the First Armenian Republic. Pashinyan: Armenia’s desired goal is “on the horizon” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that Armenia is moving forward “without interruption”. Opposition leader, supporters spend night at Sardarapat memorial Police made nearly 300 arrests the day before as Galstanyan and his supporters continued to demonstrate in Yerevan. |