Working on Your Stress

Stress. Nearly everyone in the world is affected by stress. Yet, many people don't address the issue nearly as often as they should. Thankfully, this group decided to think about for a longer period of time than most other people. This lead to their research and they found some facts that I myself wasn't aware of. The facts were all quite shocking and I was surprised by a significant amount of them. The one that stood out the most, however, is that 9% of college students from 2007-2008 had seriously considered suicide because they didn't know how to cope with their high levels of stress.

The facts that they found let to their coming up with a brilliant idea for an app that can help relieve some of the stress that some people may experience. The app "Stress Less" is a good concept for an app and it's features will without a doubt help people cope with stress. The best part about this app, I would have to say, is how it can be personalized to fit different individuals. The app even "checks up" on you once a month so that it can measure your progress and determine if the choices you've made thus far have helped you with your stress. And, if it finds that it didn't it will even give you new suggestions that are also tailored to you that may help. Something else that the app does is give you some available outside resources that can also help.

However, having said these things, this app does have its faults. For one, although the pictures and suggestions of the day could be easy to personalize for people, it would be much more difficult to do with music and videos. This is because it would take longer and cost more to develop a program that can "listen to" and "watch" videos in order to determine which would best fit a certain personality type. So, consultants would have to be hired to actually analyze these videos and music in order to determine which videos would lower stress in a particular personality type. This, although a cheaper and quicker solution compared to a program, could be very expensive. Another major problem is how easily corruptible this program could be in respect to the products and business that it displays under its resources section. I believe that it could be easily corrupted because a company and/or business could pay for their goods and/or services to be displayed ahead of others despite what might benefit the users.