More than our fair share. Tuesday February 7, 2012

To share or not to share?

On Sunday I asked for some thoughts about the sharing of daily mood scores and boy did we get a lot. If you have a spare ten minutes, I can thoroughly recommend perusing the 90+ comments here:

http://moodscope.blogspot.com/

We hadn't expected (but were delighted) to receive so much feedback from people who aren't actually sharing their scores with buddies, and their reasons make fascinating reading.

Some treat their mood issues as an intensely personal matter, preferring that nobody should know about them. Others don't wish to burden those around them, believing they already have enough on their own plate.

A few more suggest that we might find a mechanism that enables Moodscopers to pair up as buddies even though they don't know one another in real life (tricky but potentially interesting, an idea we've been toying with for some time).

Then there are those who are sharing scores, and who believe it's helping (this was my experience too, back in 2007).

One thing that's clear is that there's no 'one size fits all' answer to this.

Another is that there's an enormous amount of enthusiasm and passion amongst Moodscopers. A real sense of positive spirit. Whenever we ask for input, we're invariably overwhelmed by the response.

This warms my heart. And yours, I hope.

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