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Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Guest post by Octav Druta. Octav is the Co-Founder of Trigwee, a community that connects you with people that can help you achieve your own dreams. He blogs at http://www.octavdruta.com and can be reached using @octavdruta.
Our brains are trained evolutionarily to spread negative information fast. It perfectly makes sense, we have to survive, so we need to know what’s wrong in order to avoid it. This happens especially when we’re talking about any kind of threats.
If there’s any context in which we all love to play with information, that’s the Internet. We use the Net to search for info and talk to each other. Thanks to Web2.0 we now communicate with each other via photos, comments, statuses, videos, etc.
I was curious to see whether our inclination to spread negative information affects the conversational environment on the Internet.
I’ve used ubervu in order to see how many people talk about:
Here’s what I found:

What do you think about this?
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