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 | Titus, Bilirakis lead legislation to sanction Azerbaijani war criminals Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced the bipartisan legislation. Azerbaijan must respect human rights, Scholz tells Aliyev German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for greater respect for human rights in Azerbaijan. Armenia: Defense Ministry warns against involving army in political processes The Ministry’s statement came after a video surfaced online, showing soldiers joining the protests in Tavush. Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. |