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posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the buy-now! dept.

News Corp's news.com.au reports on an internal document leaked from Facebook:

The confidential document dated this year detailed how by monitoring posts, comments and interactions on the site, Facebook can figure out when people as young as 14 feel "defeated", "overwhelmed", "stressed", "anxious", "nervous", "stupid", "silly", "useless", and a "failure".

Such information gathered through a system dubbed sentiment analysis could be used by advertisers to target young Facebook users when they are potentially more vulnerable.

Facebook has apologised and says it will investigate.

The story originally appeared in News Corp's The Australian, where it is pay-walled.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:00PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:00PM (#503903)

    feel "defeated", "overwhelmed", "stressed", "anxious", "nervous", "stupid", "silly", "useless", and a "failure"

    Well, ya gotta be realistic, if you're a teen on facebook, nobody hangs out on FB anymore except cat lady auntie with her 75 cute little smootchins cutie cutie oh I just love my little kitties don't I oh look at my post of little kitty kitty isn't that the most precious kitty face ever ... so yeah, if I had to hang out on that social media site, I'd probably be watching that netflix 13 series they were warning us about.

    I mean in my day, kids would get their books dumped or kick me signs on their back or WTF, I guess in 2017 beta tier teens get stuck "socializing" with their moms and cat lady aunties on FB, while the cool kids trade hot sexting pics on snapchat or maybe gain access to tindr somehow or shitpost on 4chan /pol/ or whatever is a good time today, the only thing thats certain is its probably not FB.

    Also I had some bad days as a teen my self but I never felt all nine of those at once. Surely they meant an "or" not an "and"? Although see above, if you're a teen still using grannies legacy facebook to connect with lonely cat ladies, you're probably not terribly happy, so maybe in that situation?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:07PM (#503909)
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:12PM (#503915)

    gain access to tindr somehow

    Is this facetious?

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:21PM (#503920)

      He means grindr.