{"id":14528,"date":"2018-03-27T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mention.com\/blog\/?p=14528"},"modified":"2024-07-10T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:52:33","slug":"social-media-mentions-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mention.com\/en\/blog\/social-media-mentions-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of 11 Billion Mentions: Social Media is More Negative Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get the feeling that the internet is becoming more negative? That people online are just getting angrier? <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14531 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Angry-Emoji-PNG-Transparent-Image.png\" alt=\"Angry social media emoji\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Angry-Emoji-PNG-Transparent-Image.png 500w, https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Angry-Emoji-PNG-Transparent-Image-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Angry-Emoji-PNG-Transparent-Image-438x350.png 438w, https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Angry-Emoji-PNG-Transparent-Image-187x150.png 187w, https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Angry-Emoji-PNG-Transparent-Image-24x19.png 24w, https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Angry-Emoji-PNG-Transparent-Image-36x29.png 36w, https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Angry-Emoji-PNG-Transparent-Image-48x38.png 48w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/400;\" \/> \u00a0 We hear that a lot. And if you&#8217;re one of those feel this way, you&#8217;re not alone: https:\/\/twitter.com\/BV\/status\/947942269742731270 https:\/\/twitter.com\/voxdotcom\/status\/797955961377853441 https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthaig1\/status\/974991669790691328 According to our new study of more than 11 billion mentions, you&#8217;re right to feel to feel the way you do. Since only 2013, social sentiment has gone from overwhelmingly positive, to consistently negative. The full study is available to view below, but <strong>here are a few of the key takeaways<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Social media has become considerably more negative<\/strong> in the past 5 years.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, positive and negative comments are almost equal. But until recently, they were considerably more positive.<\/li>\n<li>Users in the <strong>USA and Great Britain share more negative<\/strong> than positive posts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Canadians and Indians are more positive<\/strong> than negative online.<\/li>\n<li>Words like &#8220;love,&#8221; &#8220;happy,&#8221; and &#8220;good&#8221; still outweigh their counterparts &#8220;hate,&#8221; &#8220;sad,&#8221; and &#8220;bad.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who can we blame?<\/h2>\n<p>This probably won&#8217;t surprise many people, but hyperbole goes a long way online. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/videos\/molly-crockett-outraged-all-the-time-how-social-media-addicts-us-to-anger\">Big Think<\/a>, social media platforms love to promote &#8220;moral content.&#8221; <strong>The more emotion the user puts into a post, the more engaging it is<\/strong> for others: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fE_QoebLUFQ And since social media really rewards engagement &#8211; <em>likes and comments make us feel good<\/em>! &#8211; it&#8217;s always tempting for users to take their posts to an extreme. But while <strong>we definitely found a negative trend overall<\/strong>, there are plenty of happy people online, and lots to like about what they say. And most important: positive and negative posts are about even overall &#8211; it&#8217;s just that we found a lot more negative posts\u00a0<em>more recently<\/em>. So we can still right the ship! Ready to dive into the numbers? Here&#8217;s what we found. <a href=\"https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a1b78129-6ca4-4227-afe0-bf356036f927.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22355 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a1b78129-6ca4-4227-afe0-bf356036f927.png\" alt=\"mention sentiment analysis venngage\" width=\"900\" height=\"2600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 900px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 900\/2600;\" \/><\/a> For those who can&#8217;t view the infographic, here it is in text form:<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Collected 11 Billion Mentions. Here&#8217;s What We Learned.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, the number of worldwide social media users <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/273476\/percentage-of-us-population-with-a-social-network-profile\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">surpassed 1.96 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">billion<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In the United States, more than 80% of the population is on social media.\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People go online social for news, entertainment, and to connect with each other. Or maybe it&#8217;s to vent, start arguments, and spread false news. <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Either way, they&#8217;re on social media<\/strong>.<\/span> <a href=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Mention<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we help brands track what people say about them and their competitors on social media. As a result, we&#8217;ve collected a giant database of social mentions. <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also have some pretty cool analysis tools that show us the sentiment for social media posts. So ran these tools over the whole database. <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We wanted to know whether social media was a place for happy users, or just as miserable as people claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social sentiment: Is the online world full of hate?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The internet is such a negative place.&#8221; We&#8217;ve all heard this, and most of us probably think it&#8217;s true &#8211; at least to some degree. But do most people share happy thoughts online, or is social media and the web just a big pit of despair?<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The more we use social media, the less happy we seem to be&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alicegwalton\/2017\/06\/30\/a-run-down-of-social-medias-effects-on-our-mental-health\/\">Forbes<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The reality of social media today is that&#8230;you can&#8217;t avoid negative reviews and comments.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/young-entrepreneur-council\/9-effective-ways-to-handle-negativity-on-social-media.html\">Inc<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Our feeds often resemble an endless stream of stress.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns\">BBC<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We performed <\/span><b>sentiment analysis for our english mentions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to see just how positive or negative the digital landscape is. It may <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like social media is always a downer, but what does the data say?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall sentiment (all sources)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From our huge database of mentions, how many are positive or negative?<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.51%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 6.40%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Most mentions are neutral.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, we see an almost even split between positive and negative mentions, going back to 2012. Social media has generally been neither more positive or negative. <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the vast majority (87.09%) of mentions are neutral &#8211; with no clear sentiment one way or the other. So maybe it&#8217;s not as bad as it seems?<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But many people feel that social media is getting worse. So has social sentiment changed over time? <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changes in sentiment over time<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See how the amount of positive and negative mentions has changed year after year:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>2013<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13.04%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 2.71%<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>2015<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13.61%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 3.87%<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>2016<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.06%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 5.71%<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>2017<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.57%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 6.86%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to our data, <\/span><b>social media has become considerably more negative<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the past five years. Between 2013 and 2017, social media users went from largely upbeat, to feeling blue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sentiment by country<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where is all this negativity coming from? Are certain countries more positive or negative online? <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>USA<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.74%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 7.08%<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Canada<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11.46%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 4.98%<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Great Britain<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.24%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 6.92%<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>India (English language)<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong>: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.31%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong>: 3.59%<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social media users in the United States are the most negative, according to our data. And those in the UK are not far behind.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In stark contrast, these results support the stereotype that Canadians are happy, positive people!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How users express their feelings<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s how often these common positive and negative words appeared in our database of mentions:<\/span> <b>Love<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">37173734<\/span> <b>Hate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4346669<\/span> \u00a0 <b>Happy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">16308124<\/span> <b>Sad<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2978166<\/span> \u00a0 <b>Good<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">35653846<\/span> <b>Bad<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9082556<\/span> \u00a0 <b>Awesome<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6417655<\/span> <b>Sucks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">668036<\/span> \u00a0 <b>Best<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">33535990<\/span> <b>Worst<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2865229<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite our suspicions that social media is a negative place, users overwhelmingly prefer positive language!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do the experts say?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s what we found from our data. But what do other studies say about social media sentiment?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>The bad<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;In general, when people spend a lot of time passively consuming information \u2014 reading but not interacting with people \u2014 they report feeling worse afterward.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2017\/12\/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;People who clicked on about four times as many links as the average person, or who liked twice as many posts, reported worse mental health than average in a survey.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/12\/15\/16781448\/facebook-makes-you-feel-bad-study-research\">UC San Diego \/ Yale<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>The good<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It would be wrong to say social media is a universally bad thing, because clearly it brings myriad benefits to our lives.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns\">BBC<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;One in five teens said social media makes them feel more confident, compared with 4% who said it makes them feel less so.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/21\/living\/social-media-positives-teens-parents\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social media use can lead to feelings of depression or isolation; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2017\/12\/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">even Facebook admits this<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But this may be more due to the way users compare themselves with friends and acquaintances, rather than the language or sentiment expressed online. <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watching others succeed can lead to envy or FOMO. But, &#8220;when not triggering feelings of envy, [social media] could be a good resource and have positive effects on well-being.&#8221; (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/nurturing-self-compassion\/201703\/mental-health-and-the-effects-social-media\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychology Today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So while social media sometimes feels like the worst party in the world, in fact, there may be a lot more happy people out there than we think.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Methodology<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To help you understand these results, here&#8217;s how we gathered them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2,268,798,327 mentions<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Mention, we&#8217;ve now fetched more than 11 billion mentions on behalf of our clients. Because that&#8217;s a huge pile to analyze, we grabbed a sample of 20%. That&#8217;s still an enormous pile of mentions!<\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mention locations:<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United States: 913,463,058 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">France: 168,139,124 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great Britain: 122,551,955 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India: 62,689,952 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spain: 45,453,472 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canada: 34,688,875 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mexico: 25,112,466 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germany: 28,420,570 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia: 24,257,922<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get the feeling that the internet is becoming more negative? That people online are just getting angrier? \u00a0 We hear that a lot. And if you&#8217;re one of those feel this way, you&#8217;re not alone: https:\/\/twitter.com\/BV\/status\/947942269742731270 https:\/\/twitter.com\/voxdotcom\/status\/797955961377853441 https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthaig1\/status\/974991669790691328 According to our new study of more than 11 billion mentions, you&#8217;re right to feel to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mention.com\/en\/blog\/social-media-mentions-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Analysis of 11 Billion Mentions: Social Media is More Negative Than Ever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-listening","category-social-media-analysis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Social Sentiment Online: Yes, Social Media is Becoming More Negative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Think the web and social media are filled with angry users? 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