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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: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday February 25 2019, @10:49PM (3 children)
Refugees need help just as do homeless and vets who need help.
I agree that healthy tap water makes bottled water unnecessary. Assuming they can access tap water.
If the government would help refugees, I would tend to focus on homeless and others locally in need.
I wish I could fix the world's problems. But even helping a little bit is worth doing, even if it doesn't seem like much.
Alcohol won't solve your problems.
But then neither will water or soft drinks.
And alcohol has more possible uses, such as fuel or sterilization.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 25 2019, @10:55PM (2 children)
So basically you want us to give alcohol (possibly 190-proof grain alcohol) to refugees.
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(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @11:09PM
Yes, it's a good way of weeding out jihadi Muslims.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:45AM
Nope. Stick 'em with Bud Light. Got no other use for it, 'cept loading it into air tankers & putting forest fires out with it, maybe.