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In this era of "incite outrage-at-the-moment-to-get-that-click" clickbait news and postings pushed to us by mainstream media and social networks, is it a wonder that society is in the current state that its in..?
This article at NPR states that even if you're not aware of it, it's likely that your emotions will influence someone around you today. This can happen during our most basic exchanges, say on your commute to work. "If someone smiles at you, you smile back at them," says sociologist Nicholas Christakis of Yale University. "That's a very fleeting contagion of emotion from one person to another."
But it doesn't stop there. Emotions can spread through social networks almost like the flu or a cold. And, the extent to which emotions can cascade is eye-opening.
For instance, Christakis' research has shown that if you start to become happier with your life, a friend living close by has a 25 percent higher chance of becoming happy too. And your partner is more likely to feel better as well. The happiness can even spread to people to whom you're indirectly connected.
To document this, Christakis and his colleagues mapped out the face-to-face interactions of about 5,000 people living in one town, over the course of 32 years. Their emotional ups and downs were documented with periodic surveys. "We were able to show that as one person became happy or sad, it rippled through the network," Christakis says.
It's not just happiness that spreads, unhappiness and anger can be contagious, too. Should negative-clickbait be banned as a social threat?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @10:17PM (8 children)
Google's curated news (news.google.com) has basically taboola / national enquirer classed outrage clickbait.. I stopped reading it and started reading NPR instead. My day goes much better, and I am not missing any real news.
Lets look at today's "headlines" on the goog...:
"This exchange between Mike Pompeo and Jake Tapper on North Korea is literally unbelievable" +1 clickbait +1 outrage (yup, I don't believe it, what an outrage! click NOW to find out what the hell this is about..)
"Former Trump campaign staffer sues, alleging that Trump kissed her without consent" +1 outrage (another #metoo... tired of these ...write an article when there is a conviction)
"After Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Chili and threatened by new natural disaster" +1 clickbait (what's this? kaijuu from the ocean depths? click now! to find out!)
"Supreme court says vote of "dead progressive icon" judge does not count" +1 clickbait +1 outrage (I am outraged! why shouldn't his vote count! Click NOW! for more outrage!)
...etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @11:25PM
I trained it to mostly be tech clickbait. Some political junk still sneaks through.
I *only* did this because I am bored at lunch and all I have is a cell phone during that time.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday February 25 2019, @11:43PM (6 children)
I used to like NPR before the election season. I wonder if I will like it again reading it rather than listening to it, because hysterical Jews (yes, NPR are all Jews) are shrill as fuck and I would like to hear news distractions without them all trying to blame Trump for something.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @12:02AM (2 children)
Yep, NPR isn't perfect, but it is the best I have been able to find so far.
The pre-Murdoch Wall Street Journal used to be really good and I was happy to pay for it, but post Murdoch, its now just another worthless rag. New York Times used to be good too, but now is openly pro "open borders" and won't call illegal-aliens for what they actually are ('undocumented'..bah!), so they are out too, another "newspaper" that is an opinion rag rather than reporting news..
And don't get me going on the "Clinton Clinches nomination" piece that the hacks put out on the Associated Press (and they happily published in every paper in the state) the night before the California primary when Clinton hadn't actually 'clinched' anything... sheesh, its like Pravda..
Between the media and social networks trying to outrage with clickbait and more outrage to make money, and 'newspapers' with obvious agendas that have nothing to do with what "news" has classically been understood to be (fair and balanced reporting, investigation and publishing of the facts), it is pretty hopeless out there.
NPR is the best I have found so far, but is still far from ideal..
I wish there was something better, and wouldn't mind even paying for it, if it existed..
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @12:18AM (1 child)
NPR does little more than re-read AP, Reuters, and BBC and call it their own. They have been doing that for as long as I can remember.
Once you realize people can buy articles that are little more than advertisements for something. It is not that big of a leap of logic to realize 'news' is fake or at best bought. Every once and awhile you will get a good piece. But many times they are rush jobs with little fact checking if any at all. Got to hit the deadline.
I wish there was something better, and wouldn't mind even paying for it, if it existed
Tell me about it... I have been searching for 25+ years.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:47AM
That is informative. I don't think NPR ever goes outside, or meets people. They get all their news right off the screens on their desks. Has anyone ever seen an NPR reporter, or journalist?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:21AM (2 children)
You Motherfucker. On behalf of all the Jews like myself, I'd to tell you the following. Franceinfo is great, and france24 is pretty decent (although the english one isn't as neutral). NPR puts me to sleep, and and when I need to be put to sleep, PBS is much better.
On a side-note
"if you start to become happier with your life, a friend living close by has a 25 percent higher chance of becoming happy too. And your partner is more likely to feel better as well"
Now, I didn't read the article, but either the scientist or the reporter is a faggot here. What pisses me is people putting cause and effect where it doesn't belong. If my life somehow became happier, what are the chances that the neighborhood got better, or we had a summer with good weather, effecting everyone on the block? Probably 25%. If I get happier because I got a better job would my partner be happy from a more relaxing life through higher income? Nah, I, center of the world am walking around spreading smiles, and I take all the credit.
fucking dirty faggots.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:42AM (1 child)
Now this is how the Jews get good with Goys:
First, you admit you're assholes just like we are. People in Israel already know this, but Israeli sympathetics outside of Israel must understand this.
Second, you become up-front about your plans in a manner that makes us think we're fighting together. Feigning empathy from terrorist attacks within a nation is not going to further this cause.
Third, treat America as if it were Israel. Not about the filthy 9/11 and other hacks, but that having a strong national identity is a good thing, except this time it's not just for you, but everybody else. So stop flooding us with refugee scum. Canada will take them and if we can shut the Mexican border down, then they will have to live with the consequences of taking them.
(Score: 1, Informative) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday February 27 2019, @07:58PM
Just about all jews outside of the 25% of us that live outside of Israel, think Israel is that embarrassing stupid drunk uncle that shows up around Christmas and makes an ass out of himself. All of us are against supporting those sandniggers (Israeli jews) financially, and a lot of us, me included, would be happy if they get nuked into a green glowing hole.
Jews haven't been refugees in a while. We ran the banks before war made us refugees. Now we run the banks and the media, and the world. There are no refugee Jews - we are the ones who own the world. And no, I am not talking about Israelis, but the other 75% of us. Israel is to Jews like ISIS is to muslims.