“Moon Phrases”: A Social Media Faciliated Tool for Emotional Reflection and Wellness

   After I read the article which talks about the “moon phrase”, I was kind of getting interest of this. Actually before, I also curious about the people’s posts in the social media, sometime I found people don’t want to share the emotions and words with you face to face, but they will choose write it down in the social media like twitter, Facebook or Instagram. 

    Roughly, the moon phrases is a tool like “behavioral fingerprint” to track the emotion and linguistic expression on the social media which can record and reflect individuals’ own behavior over time.

    Firstly, why it’s necessary to invent the “moon phrases”, I think the significant reason is that emotion is closely related with our health and body which easily can impact some aspects of our lives. in this way the moon phrases can offer people awareness and acceptance of their feelings, so they might adjust their situation in time which can help individuals to work or enjoy social life efficiently. Additionally, in order to avoid getting disorder, for people  the moon phrases record the historical posting over time to facilitate emotional wellness.

   Second, social network and environment take an important function on individual’s emotional wellness. Therefore, the expression of language can affect human intentions, moods and disorders effectively. Since people use there language in the social media, to sone extent, the social media can provide a signal for people to figure out the emotional behaviors. The tool for emotional wellness seems very valuable for  people to in corporate mood together data, which also can encourage people’s health self-reflection.

    Third, regarding to the design process, the author intended to produce low-fidelity prototypes and gather reactions and comments based on the six media users’ experience. The patterns and levels of activity can define the interactions. In details, the moon phrases can offer a good way to observe how individual’s emotion change with the usage of various style categories like interrelated patterns of cognitive processes, physiological arousal, and behavioral reactions. Also, the moon phrases pay attention to the privacy and ethical considerations.

      Moreover, the moon phrases have the part of limitations and future directions. 

     In general, I think the moon phrases are very valuable for people to utilize, nowadays the emotion really became an important reason  to influence people’s life and work, even for the healthy. So through the moon phrases people can easily get reflection and awareness of their trend of moods, personally, not only it develops the significance of the social media, but also it provides good benefits for people to improve their life quality.