Shared experiences. Sunday February 5, 2012

Some do, others don't.

No, not flossing. I'm thinking about the Moodscope feature which lets you nominate other people to receive automatic notifications every time you record a score - what we call your Moodscope buddies.

A couple of days ago psychologist Professor Seth Roberts - one of the world's leading experts in the fascinating area of self-experimentation and self-tracking - asked me what we know about possible changes to people's mood scores if and when they start sharing them.

Now we've got a seriously sizeable data mountain, so it's pretty easy to give Seth hard number evidence.

But we figured it could also be interesting to actually ask our trusty Moodscopers to relate their own experiences. So if you're a sharer, this means you please.

To make things easy (and transparent) we've set up a purpose-built one-page blog on which you can post your thoughts about score sharing, and see what others say too.

Heck, if you're not a sharer, we'd be interested in your views also. Why don't you share? What might make you do so?

Mainly, however, today's focus is on finding out more about what if anything happens to people's scores once they decide to share them.

Here's where we're at:

http://moodscope.blogspot.com/

Knowing our Moodscopers as I do, I'm certain there'll be some fascinating learning there in the next 24 hours or so. So please feel free to post, and definitely feel free to read.

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