Regardless of whether you’re in the Invasion of Mypace camp, or the Well That’s How Business Works camp, Facebook has beenplaying games with your heart. As we all now ought to know, Facebook has admitted to experimentally filtering feed results to test emotional response and behavior in users. While it’s hard to consider experimentation without informed consent to be anything less than blatantly shady, it’s also well within their legal rights. Ethical it ain’t, but then again deskchair epidemiology has never had the luxury of such self-selecting scale.
But the biggest bummer—other than seeing an upswing in pictures of your exes and their stupid beautiful lives—is that we didn’t get to see the results! Not so any longer. Artist Lauren McCarthy created the Mood Manipulator, a browser extension that allows you the gratification of choosing your own digitally devised mood swings.
Now you can choose your own emotional filtering rather than passively interacting with a pre-adjusted feed filtered by unseen researchers without enough scruple to feel weird studying emotional effects in people who have not been notified. These tasteful opt-in controls give you four tonal “channels" with three positions each: Positive, Emotional, Aggressive and Open (in other news four-metric psych news, the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless). Just download the extension and toggle your way to psycho-social harmony.
Always with the babies
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