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Related News: Facebook to Track Users Across Devices to Study Shopping Habits

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Bloomberg published an article titled Facebook to Track Users Across Devices to Study Shopping Habits.

Facebook Inc. will let advertisers know where a promotion was first viewed and when it led to a purchase by tracking users between their electronic devices, a tool that may reignite privacy concerns.

Marketers will be able to see the number of users that clicked on an ad, whether they used a smartphone, tablet or desktop computer, and which device was used to buy a product, Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said in a blog post today.

Source: Bloomberg

Related News: Facebook And The Ethics Of User Manipulation

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. TechCrunch published an article titled Facebook And The Ethics Of User Manipulation.

A recent study conscripted Facebook users as unwitting participants during a weeklong experiment in direct emotional manipulation. The study set out to discover if the emotional tone of a users’ News Feed content had an impact on their own emotional makeup, measured through the tone of what they posted to the social service after viewing the skewed material.

Nearly 700,000 Facebook users were shown either more positive, or more negative content. The study found that users who were given more positive news feeds posted more positive things, and users who were given more negative news feeds posted more negative things.

Source: TechCrunch

Related News: Study: Using Facebook can make you sad

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Study: Using Facebook can make you sad.

When you click “Like” on your friends’ Facebook posts, do you really mean it?

If seeing your Facebook friends living wonderful, fun-filled lives gives you a case of the blues, you’re not alone. A new University of Michigan study found that the more people checked Facebook, the more likely they were to feel worse about their own lives.

Source: CNN

Related News: Study: Vast Majority Of Homemade Porn, Private Photos End Up Online

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CBS DC published an article titled Study: Vast Majority Of Homemade Porn, Private Photos End Up Online.

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – The vast majority of homemade pornography and private images on personal computers ends up on public websites called “parasites.”

Eighty-eight percent of homemade pornography, including videos and still images, finds its way onto porn sites, often without the owners’ knowledge, a new study from Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has found.

The study analyzed more than 12,000 sexually explicit images uploaded by young people and found that the great majority of images had been stolen and published to what the organization calls, “parasite” websites.

Source: CBS DC