Of course Facebook makes you happy!

Facebook dominates the web when it comes to social media. A few years ago, Myspace was the big thing -- but hey, let's be honest, when you mention Myspace, you're mostly likely to get the response, "Myspace? What's that?" So, it only makes sense that people from all across the spectrum utilize this ever-expanding social network. And now, they have an app that judges how happy you are.

Facebook created an app called "Gross National Happiness" that analyzes Facebook updates and judges certain words to determine how happy you are through the year. Most of the results have been fairly obvious: more happy around good events like holidays and Super Bowl time and less happy when bad things happen like Micheal Jackson dying. But, it's a step forward in determining the general happiness of Facebook users. They've now extended the list to 18 countries, including U.S., Canada, India, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Austria, Germany, New Zealand, Italy, Chile, Uruguay, Spain, Mexico, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Ireland, Venezuela and Colombia.

How lovely. Facebook is getting even more popular. Sadly, I'm not a huge Facebook user or a fan. In fact, I got a Facebook, and I hardly touch the thing. To be honest, I don't see where all this hype is coming from. Major social networking sites are just a little too revealing sometimes. And although I do find this app idea very interesting from a social and techonological standpoint, it just gives people even more advantage to stalk other people on Facebook.

Link to the original article:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/facebook.happiness.mashable/index.html