In this special day, I received tons of messages from my friends and relatives. As I expected, messages are quite different. Some are funny; some are annoying, etc. 

To answer the question I asked in the very beginning of the research, I think people are fairly respectful to other people's free will and religious choices. From all the responses I got, only two of them are insults, and one of the two is actually half joke. I think today, people are respectful to others' religion. However, not a single person seems like to discuss about my new religious believing. Instead, they just asked me if I am Okay. I think it is quite natural and does not indicate that people do not respect my choice because from their point of view, my action was actually sudden and unexpected. If I were them, I would also ask my friend if he is ok, even if I am a buddhist.

As we can see in the chart above, most of my friends were joking on me. I asked some of them about the reason, they all told me that they thought I was just joking or being sarcasm. This is actually a very strong point that on the Internet, people are less likely to believe that people will do anything unexpected. Because it is quite easy to be hacked on the Internet, people are more intended to believe people who did unexpected things are hacked or just being funny. Since people do not have face-to-face interaction on the Internet, they cannot see each others' facial expressions and other convincing actions by their own eyes.

Because I am using we-chat as the experiment platform,people who can see my post are mostly my acquaintance. No strangers can see my post. I think that would be one of the reasons that I haven't seen anyone who would love to discuss buddhism with me. I think if I had chose another social media, which involves more strangers, like Instagram, I would have received more buddhists' friendly greetings and discussions about buddhism.