A new report claimed that Facebook company has deliberately disabled the application of a small number of users to see their reaction to it, which led to a wave of anger at the company knew about the experiences of its users to make her field.
The report accused the newspaper "The by Information" The Information published by Facebook that it had selectively applied to stop the Android operating system, for long periods of time in an attempt to discover the threshold that link users to the point of despair of the application and leave him.
But the temptation enjoyed by the Facebook social network has proved to be very large, according to a person familiar with the experience, "the company were not able to reach this threshold," adding that "people were coming back every time." Even with the application stops for hours, users are turning to mobile Web version of the site, rather than stop using it.
According to the report, the experiment has been conducted only once several years ago, but once again occupy the argument that Facebook users make it a testing ground. In 2014, Facebook has seen wide reactions after the disclosure that it had conducted its users to experience the study "emotional contagion".
Facebook then apologized officially for these psychological tests, which involved a deliberately increase the positive or negative content appearing to users in the "Latest News" and then try to determine if it makes the user publications happier or sadder.
As for the motive behind these experiments, the site said The Information that the company was planning to put a backup plan in the event that competition with Google (on advertising and research) turned into a full-scale war and the recent removal of the application for Facebook from Google Play store.
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