Spread Happiness to your Facebook Friends with New Application by ruHap - Based on Harvard Research

July 27, 2010 - PRLog -- ruHap, The Happiness Company http://ruhap.com/ 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 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 500 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
•   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 http://ruhap.com/ 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: http://apps.facebook.com/ruhaphappinessindex.  



Contact:

Gregory S. Barsh, Esq.
Chief Happiness Officer and Founder
ruHap, The Happiness Company
http://ruhap.com/

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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.