Facebook’s newest internal study about how users respond to sad or negative emotions via either their own status updates or the "feelings annotation tool" was less “a claim about people generally, but a claim about people on Facebook,” one researcher says. While the study found that negative posts catalyzed more user interaction, analysts claim the survey wasn’t specific enough and was more for Facebook’s  benefit. The study’s findings are inconsistent with a 2014 study based on Twitter, which found people were in fact less likely to respond to negative Tweets, The Atlantic reports.
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