Two different views of the recent news about experiments with users at Facebook

This news article is about the Data Science team at Facebook and is from the +Wall Street Journal. It was written by +Reed Albergotti.

This news article is also about the recent experiments with customers at Facebook and is from the +Wall Street Journal.  It was written by +Farhad Manjoo.

I have to admit to feeling slightly disturbed by their experimenting with real people (maybe even with me) but also envious of them having such a large a rich source of data with the time to do analyses to see what it can tell them.