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Facebook's 'Gross National Happiness' App Indicates Which Countries Need Prozac

Last year, Facebook unveiled its Gross National Happiness app, a prototype that gauges the emotional well-being of users by scanning user status updates for "happy" words like "yay" and "awesome," or for "unhappy" words like "doubt" and "tragic." Originally, the methodology was applied only to American users, but as Mashable reports, the social networking site has now broadened it to include 18 ...

If You're Happy and You Know It... Facebook Knows It, Too

At this point, we're all aware that Facebook knows far too much about us. It can apparently be used to detect our sexual orientations and, well, just about anything else about us, really. Today, though, the reigning champion of social networking has begun peering not only into our lives, but into our very hearts. Under the title 'How Happy Are We?,' Facebook intern and Ph.D. student Adam Kramer ...