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SHARING –
HAPPINESS AND HARDSHIP
Cui Wantian, China
11.1 Sharing in the Internet-Age
“Share happiness and hardship”. This is a saying from the Chinese
Qing dynasty. The famous philosopher Francis Bacon said, if you share
your happiness to your friends, you will get double; if share your sorrow
to your friends, you will get half.
The seemingly ancient truth shows its value and significance more
and more in today's Internet-age of globalization. Sharing itself is not
only a kind of giving and a kind of spirit, but also a kind of self-
fulfilment. Perhaps people from previous times were never like today's
youth who are so willing to share, especially on the internet. We can at
least understand as: a few aspects of reasons make them to be willing to
share. It can also explain that it is the value of sharing at the same time.
When you share a life-tip, such as how to quickly rid your refrigera-
tor of an unpleasant odor, through social networks—sharing platforms—
such as Facebook, WeChat or Weibo, this means to deliver good support
and faith.
It can be called the wish to develop the capability of others, to seek
to help others to develop, meaning: “I know good news, and I also want
to deliver good faith”. The one who shares also demonstrates: “I know