Surround Yourself With Good People: Positivity Spreads

I end the week with just one simple (but far-reaching) reflection:

What kind of emotions are you injecting into the world this week? Because whatever you’re putting out there, you’re fostering more of that.

For one week in January 2013, Facebook analyzed three million posts from users’ news feeds. Linguistic software was used to determine whether an update was positive or negative (or neither), and Facebook tweaked the news feeds to see the effect of showing higher ratios of positive or negative updates.

Facebook has found that seeing positive posts influences people to post positive updates, seeing negative posts influences people to post negative updates, and that an absence of emotion on their News Feed leads them to post less overall.

Read more about these findings here.