Facebook's Global Emotion Analysis: Sports Can Make Us Sad Like Disasters Do

Facebook's happiness measurements have been little more than novelties so far. But the analytics team has just tweaked its system to cover more of the world, and turned the happiness index into a serious research tool. The first results are in: sports and national events can make us all sad, it seems.

Facebook's off-topic investigation of happiness has in the past been tightly limited to just a few nations. Now the team's used the localization powers of Facebook to add in 18 more nations...