Comments on: Smile and Your Social Network Smiles With You http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2009/01/02/smile-and-your-social-network-smiles-with-you/ The Mass of Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation. Where's the Fun in That? Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:06:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ed Dale http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2009/01/02/smile-and-your-social-network-smiles-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-13413 Ed Dale Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:00:39 +0000 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/?p=466#comment-13413 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. 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.

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