Headlines and Hangovers, are They Related?

News outlets and media have taken the tech world by storm. Something that has been well met by the logged in population. Apple reports that almost all new apps being created and downloaded are for "informational" use.

So why the rise in local broadcasting stations and fake headlines? Is it just that the people are more connected so therefore more involved, or perhaps just disaster rubbernecking. A group of Stanford students had just this question.

"We wanted to know why all the sudden our friends watched the news" Axel Rose, an undergrad, said. Their study tried to connect the headlines to the people. "What stories they watched kind of matched their behaviors. So then we asked could news stories change someone."

The students in Stanford's Local News Study program then set to find out. They started to filter out different stories from the participants social media.

"We just changed what they saw."

What they found was shocking.

"The behaviors changed and the people that were once generally happy were now reacting differently. The most interesting thing was that the group exposed to negative and smear headlines were like hungover. Slow and groggy."

By the end of the twelve day experiment that group was showing signs of alcoholism. One participant is even listed as having "liver complications".

"We know they weren't drinking" Axel stated, "we monitored everything."

So click on those happy cat stories and read until you can't see. Stanford says they aren't sure what to do with the data they found.

"We see that there is a connection but we don't know where the connection is made."

Too many nasty news interviews can make you drunk, but not the good kind. Axel said there was no euphoria only the next morning sick to your stomach hangovers. So our advice is just stay on Prose.