Social Calm: Using Group SMS to make Smiling Contagious

Smiling creates Calm. We created an intimate, fun conversation through smiling in a group SMS

This participant enjoyed the simplicity and fun created by conversation:

I was surprised to  see the many different definitions of “smiling.”  I particularly found the commentary related to each smile to be very funny and made me feel closer to the rest of the group  members. I really appreciated how easy it was to send texts to multiple people simultaneously.  It made it very easy to do the smile project.

I was surprised at how I enjoyed seeing smiles in the morning, it helped me be more positive.

Receiving random smiles at random times from friends made me surprisingly happy.  I found myself naturally wanting to smile whenever I even just saw a notification (didn’t even have to see the picture).  Further,  I had a lot of fun showing the “smiles” off to others.

I liked the group consistency and participation. I think this was related to both the group aspect, because it alerted me for each message, and because texts aren’t totally overloaded for me like emails.

My husband and I ended up taking photos together, and thus made the experience our own in a unique way.