BLUE BELL, Pa., July 27, 2010 — Help your friends be Happier, and their friends, and their friends too with the first-ever Facebook Application designed to leverage Harvard research that Happiness is contagious through social networks. ruHap, The Happiness Company has introduced an application that will soon help thousands of Facebook users find Happiness every day.
Happiness spreads through friends and family like a virus, according to research published in the British Medical Journal in December. Surprisingly perhaps, Happiness spreads three levels deep, meaning that whether you are Happy or not impacts the Happiness of your friends' friends' friends. This is according to research by Nicholas Christakis of Harvard and James Fowler of the University of California at San Diego.
In the study of indirect relationships, a person's chance of being Happier increased by 15% for every Happy friend they have, 10% for every Happy friend of a friend, and even 6% for the Happy friends of the friends of friends. ruHap's new Facebook application was built to take advantage of this phenomenon and help Facebook's over 400 million users lead a Happier life.
This has large implications as Happier people are more:
- Healthy;
- Productive;
- Creative; and
- Successful at work.
Happier people also:
- Live longer;
- Have more successful relationships; and
- Enjoy better mental health.
Users can vote once a day whether they are Happy or not and add comments explaining why, thus helping their friends be Happier, and their friends, and their friends, too. Sharon Dubrow of Burke, Virginia enjoys being a positive influence, saying, "I love ruHap's Facebook application. I share positive things with my friends and it helps them be Happier."
"The average Facebook user has 130 friends so the impact can be dramatic, particularly when going three levels deep," said Gregory S. Barsh, the Chief Happiness Officer and Founder of ruHap. "This new application helps ruHap further its mission of becoming the world leader in making people Happy."
ruHap collects the results in real time and publishes a Daily Happiness Index at the ruHap website. The Daily Happiness Index is also offered as a downloadable widget which provides fresh daily content for interested websites and blogs.
The Facebook Happiness application is available here.
About ruHap, The Happiness Company: ruHap – a Top 3 Google Happiness Company – helps individuals be Happier and organizations more profitable and innovative by bringing the leading academic Positive Psychology (Happiness) research to users in small, fun, bite-sized pieces. Overloaded with information, people still want to learn how to be Happier, but in a quick, non-intrusive and pragmatic way. ruHap offers free resources at its website for individuals including videos and our blog, How to Be Happier, Happiness Coaching and Seminars for organizations, and fun logo-based apparel.
Contact:
Gregory S. Barsh, Esq.
Chief Happiness Officer and Founder
ruHap, The Happiness Company
610-745-4734
Email
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