Study Encourages People To Quit Facebook for 99 Days

Will avoiding Facebook make you a happier person?  An experiment to quit Facebook for three months, started as a joke, is gaining momentum.

Facebook's emotional manipulation and content alteration blossomed into a social experiment

The idea that started as a humorous undertone inside a small European advertising agency regarding Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s emotional manipulation study and content alteration blossomed into a full blown social experiment.

"Like a lot of Facebook users, many of us were bothered by reports of secret mood experiments," said Just Art Director Merijn Straathof. "As we discussed it internally, we noted an interesting tendency: Everyone had at least a 'complicated'...