How happy are you, and how happy is everyone else?
With the rise of social media, it is becoming a lot easier to quickly see what people are doing, what they’re thinking about, and how they feel by looking at their blog posts, comments and status updates.
To get a better sense of overall happiness, Facebook has launched a Gross National Happiness index that measures the “overall mood of people” based on whether they use positive or negative words (aka sentiment) in status updates. (Note: Facebook is only looking at U.S. users but will move into other countries soon.)
In a blog post, Facebook said its GNH will provide insight into how content people are, something that is currently only available using Gallup polls or national surveys in countries such as France and Bhutan.
So, what do you think? Can the GNH index accurately reflect the happiness of you and everyone else?
Tags: facebook, happy, sentiment, Social Media
