TechCrunch - ThankfulFor: Share Your Gratitude With The World, 140 Characters At A Time
by Jason Kincaid on September 21, 2009
Meet ThankfulFor, a new micromessaging site that is a “personal gratitude journal” which invites people to share the things they’re most thankful for in the form of 140 character long messages. It may sound like a strange idea, but apparently the practice of sharing your gratitude really can help improve your outlook on life (it’s a sort of reminder that things might not be so bad for you after all).
Using the site is simple: you enter up to 140 characters highlighting whatever it is you’re thankful for, and the service will send the message to your ‘journal’, which is effectively an archive of your thoughts. You can elect to keep this private or to share your messages with the world (the site lets you syndicate your messages to Twitter, with Facebook support coming soon). The site features a section where you can browse a public timeline of the most recent ThankfulFor messages which is surprisingly uplifting (you may also find some amusing and odd messages, like the person who was ‘thankfulfor’ Global Warming and Ricky Gervais).
