Positive words lift students from gloom

Groups on the WeChat social messaging platform that offer compliments when misfortune strikes have become popular among college students in China.

Known as kuakua groups, they are used by students when something bad happens. Other students respond to their posts by trying to point out the silver linings in the clouds.

"I just failed at a job interview. Need compliment," said one message posted by a student at Tongji University in Shanghai.