Social media content may hold keys to important health information

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 12:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Language used in everyday social media posts may have a strong connection to an individual’s health. In the first study of its kind, the new results suggest that not only are many adult Facebook and Twitter users willing to share their social media data and medical data for research purposes, but that by building a language databank, it may be possible to link social media content to health outcomes.

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