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What is the Streisand effect?

This is what happens when you want to censor or silence something on the internet, and the opposite phenomenon occurs: it arouses more interest. It happened to Barbra Streisand.

Your Facebook status reveals if you are a psychopath

In view of the latest research in psychology, we should update the old saying that the eyes are the reflection of the soul and replace “eyes” with “Facebook states”.

Facebook users read news on the social network 'by chance'

Facebook users do not go to the social network looking for current news, but they do it mainly to find out what their friends and acquaintances are doing. And if they read the news they do so "by chance", according to a study carried out by the Pew Research Center among 5,173 people to investigate the habits of this community.

Playing the guitar makes you more attractive

This is how Sigal Tifferet and his collaborators found it when they did an experiment on Facebook. The study, published in Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science in 2012, tried to support the idea put forward by GF Miller (2000) that there is a possibility that the musicality of the human being is the result of natural selection through sexual selection .

If you get angry, they retweet you more

A study by the Beihang University of China reveals that anger is the most influential emotion on social media, and suggests that messages and tweets that show anger and irritation towards news and events are more likely to go viral and spread.

Facebook will use facial recognition in the photos of its users

Facebook has just announced its intention to incorporate the profile photos of its billions of members into its facial recognition database. This face recognition technology is already used in the Tag Suggest tool to speed up the process of tagging friends and acquaintances from the photos we post on the social network.

What is 'phubbing'?

"Phubbing" consists of the act of belittling those who accompany us by paying more attention to the mobile phone or other electronic devices than to their person. It has been recently baptized in the US and there are many virtual platforms that actively combat this impolite habit.

"Like" Facebook and your friends will too

When you “like” a content posted on Facebook, you are making your friends imitate you and do it too, even when they don't like or approve of what you've written. In the opposite case, the same does not happen: a negative response to published content does not trigger a negative reaction from the rest of the readers. These are the conclusions of a new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the mimetic behavior of users of the social network Facebook.

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