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more survival knowledge than you”. This strengthens self-being and
self-respect.
11.2 Rewards for Sharing
The potential rewards for sharing are:
More value: Your sharing of good faith also gets many feedbacks.
You will get more value in such an interaction.
Harmonious relationships: This type of sharing will make your rela-
tionship more harmonious and help you obtain recognition in the inter-
personal communication, so you will be more happiness. We can see
from the simple examples how valuable sharing is.
Helping others by sharing information: A survey by the New York
Times^137 carried out in Chicago, San Francisco and New York, showed
that 85% of people say that viewing the posts of others can help inform
them of various kinds of information, 73% say that they can understand
information with deeper penetration after sharing information them-
selves—in short, sharing information is very beneficial to understand
information. Ninety-four per cent of people also think that they share
information to help others; and 49% of people think that sharing infor-
mation can let others notice their taste and preference; 68% of people
think that such sharing can better shape their own images; 78% of peo-
ple think that sharing information can let themselves maintain contact
and communication with others; 73% of people think that sharing in-
formation can attract like-minded people; 84% of people think that shar-
ing information can help support their favourite things.
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The New York Times, The Psychology of Sharing, http://nytmarketing
.whsites.net/mediakit/pos/