Smile and Your Social Network Smiles With You
Filed Under : Passing It On by Chris Miller
Jan.2,2009Every wonder about how you affect your friends in online networks, or how you are impacted by them? Check out this article from Edge:
Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HAPPINESS By By Nicholas A. Christakis & James Fowler
We found that social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person’s happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We found that happy people tend to be located in the center of their social networks and to be located in large clusters of other happy people. And we found that each additional happy friend increases a person’s probability of being happy by about 9%.
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I feel happy!, Oh so happy! and lovely and … straight.
There, does that now make me the center of my social network?
I think this study demonstrates a known item propagating through the social networking software – people like to be around happy people. Happy, confident people bring success their way, because people want to be happy and confident. This is the underlying reason for the “fake it till you make it” and the “Secret” mems. Even if you are faking being happy, people will like you more and you will be more successful than if you are a gloomy gus.
Try it for 21 days and see what happens.