Sentiment in Social Network

We love comments. The comments under our blogs,  friends' blogs, celebrities blogs, or on the online shopping sites, tourist website... etc. Why? On the one hand, we need information. Is the product worth buying? How to travel a place with less money and find lesser known wonderful attractions? On the other hand, we enjoy finding unknown connections among others, and others' sentiment over a topic. Indeed social network gives us the platform to get nearly all the information we want, but it also leads to information overload.

Unlike normal communication with others, the power of words on the screen sometimes is stronger than we think. Some words full of negative emotion or false information can be spread widely. People who contact those words may get in bad mood, and even eventually form negative thinking patterns, especially teenagers. Also, it can be problems for sentiment analysis research. 

Not all the information is necessary for people, and not all the sentiment matters. In the research, false information should be ignored. But the affection of words on people's mind can't be deleted easily. If we care about the sentiment in social media too much, it may lead to confusing, contradictory and even overwhelming. So we should arrange our time for social network,  learn to distinguish between what's reliable and what isn't. Spending time reading books, thinking independently, and communicating with others directly, are good ways for us, who are living in the information overload world.