Facebook, Twitter Content Can Show Signs Of A Person’s Health Condition: Study

A new study published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety shows a relationship between language used in posting in social media and the user’s everday life and health, EurekAlert reports.

This is a first of its kind, and researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that adults who use Facebook and Twitter are willing to let a third party use their social media data and medical data for research purposes. Moreover, creating a language databank helps build a relationship between social media content and the user’s health.

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