Subjective Well-Being and Online Social Networks

Fabio Sabatini at Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and Francesco Sarracino at STATEC in Luxembourg have published a very interesting study on the use of online social networks and people's subjective sense of general well-being.

An article in MIT Tech Review, discusses the results published here


I would be curious to see what the impact of online social networking may be on such things as elections, marriages, geographic trends, etc. based on statistically valid data and analysis.


Further still, how online social networks are or are not manipulated and how feedback loops might cause types of self-reinforcing and/or self-magnifying effects