Facebook has developed, among creepier pools of information, a Gross National Happiness Index. This assumes that FB users are a reliable representative sample -- not always the case -- and that people are largely reporting their actual feelings as opposed to song lyrics or statements which trigger the general 'happy' bucket or 'sad' bucket in error.My question is, when is the last time you were sitting someplace and wondered exactly how happy is the world, right at this instant?
Further, to whom is this information relevant -- how will FB monetize this chart? Will FB become a modern 'Big Brother', sending out news flashes which result in specific and desirable GNHI readings? When the US is sad will Obama appear in our news feeds with save-the-day messages of encouragement?
I'm fairly certain I would opt out.
via CNET
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