Dongwei Think Tank (public)
What does WeChat's three-day visibility reveal?
Zhang Xiaolong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent and founder of WeChat, once revealed a shocking statistic: the number of people who have set the status of their circle of friends to be visible for three days is more than 100 million, which is a seemingly insignificant setup switch that has a very high usage rate in WeChat.
For three days visible, many users have had a similar experience: every time you add a new relative or friend, full of anticipation to click in to take a look, and found a gray line, instantly the whole person is not good - he is on my guard? Is it because he doesn't trust me? How to objectively view this phenomenon, this article for this hot social phenomenon, writing this observation.
In the early days, the circle of friends focused on communication between friends, and it was impossible for strangers to enter your circle.
After that, even real estate agents, insurance sellers, Taobao customer service, broadband installers, and air conditioner repairers have all been added, and anyone can become your friend.
Your circle of friends used to be a secret garden that only close friends had access to, but now it's a people's square open to the public.
Our WeChat has become less private, and our circle of friends can't post without fear.
Each circle of friends you have to think for a long time, can you send, suitable, slowly are not too want to send. If the shield and will make each other very embarrassed, so three days visible, it became the best of both worlds.
And some of the remarks are really not suitable for new friends to see, we are worried that those tweets, those photos, will give a strange impression "I did not expect her to be such a person", afraid of those out of the mouth of the words out of the relationship between the killer, so three days visible in fact in the relationship between the preservation of ah.
Everyone has to say silly things, emotional times, sometimes drunk and spit out the truth, accidentally sent to the circle of friends, but when you feel a little regret, and do not want to delete, because after all, it is also a person's real psychological record.
Set three days visible to make up for the whole problem, let the past past! Besides, those past promises, those once sweet, can only be a person to experience the memory, become a fragment of time may be more appropriate, and then do not have to take out to stimulate the fragile nerves of others.
However, for three days visible, different people's ideas are still quite different. Some overly aggressive people, see you to me three days visible, to me confidential, then forget it, we do not have to talk again, so from now on to pull black, old and dead.
Many people set up a circle of friends only three days visible, originally to avoid the network of social strangers, but in the end the opposite is true, the harm is those who really care about their own people.
You should know that the only people who really care about you are the people who will go through your previous life trajectory, want to know all about you, want to know what you used to be, and then better to recognize the present you.
Think of a friend of mine, a pretty girl, often boys to add her micro-channel, or bad refusal of the kind, such as colleagues, new acquaintances and so on, this time she will set the circle of friends for three days visible.
It's not a good idea to let people you're not interested in know too much about yourself, but it's also a good idea to keep the surface of the world in perspective when it comes to coworkers, so you can just block people out.
This is more or less a protection of their privacy.
We don't want to be surrounded by people as monkeys, and we don't want to be known by the past trajectory of life, because through the WeChat circle of friends, you can probably conceptualize a person's preferences, habits, beliefs, and so on. This is very shootable data. It can be used by bad people for evil.
Setting up three days visible greatly reduces the possibility of such leakage.
I read a report that there was a vicious murder in Liaoning.
A 23-year-old girl went out to dinner and lost contact with her family that night, and two days later, her body was found in a culvert with all her money gone.
However, this is not a simple case of murder for money.
With the cooperation of the family, the local public security quickly caught the suspect.
The suspect said in his account of the crime:
"I spent a few minutes, through WeChat to check the nearby people, and then randomly clicked on a girl with a beautiful avatar and looked at her photo album."
It was easy, just a few minutes, to get a hold of someone's basic information through WeChat.
Later, according to the suspect and explained, after mastering the girl's whereabouts, he waited for the girl to appear in the subway entrance, and sure enough, it did not take long to successfully wait for the girl.
At first he did not directly rob the girl's money, but tracked her for a distance, and then in a deserted place, to the girl put forward their real purpose - and he had sex.
The girl refused him, and the heartless suspect was so angry that the girl was brutally strangled, and drove his van overnight to throw the body in a culvert.
Often heard people say, someone in the circle of friends secretly love you, warm hearted behind the fear of people, there are people hiding behind your circle of friends, secretly observing your every move, waiting for the opportunity to plot against you, and you know nothing about it.
The strangers who take the initiative to add you, or the information you leave behind in the "nearby people" may be used, and the scary thing is that all of this is happening silently.
A lot of moms like to show off their kids in the circle of friends after they have them.
Go out to play to sun, the child to eat to sun, won the award more to sun ...... afraid to miss every moment of the child's growth.
Once, Ms. Yang of Zhejiang went to the park to square dance, because her daughter-in-law was not yet off work, she took her 4-year-old granddaughter to the park with her.
Later, Ms. Yang, immersed in the dance, neglected her child, until a dance partner holding the child told her that a stranger almost took your granddaughter away just now.
Ms. Yang was shocked and rushed to look around the neighborhood, only to find that the woman left in a hurry.
Later, Ms. Yang learned that the trafficker had accosted the child from the moment she started dancing, and called the child's name in full.
She also told the child she was a friend of her mother's and said she would take her to the supermarket next door to find her mother.
When the child didn't say anything, the trafficker added that she had seen the child's photo and knew her. The trafficker later left in a hurry after being spotted by Ms. Yang's dance partner.
The child's mother was in a cold sweat when she heard about all this.
Usually go where to play, where to eat, did something and so on, she is completely displayed in the circle of friends, graphic and clear.
I didn't realize that it was these photos of their own children in the circle of friends, almost harmed their own children.
Speaking of which, I'm sure people have realized the importance of information security.
Whether it's only visible for three days or six months, WeChat and Nail are not safe instant messaging tools for people who work in secret.
Thus, the need for private deployment, triple-ended encryption products has become more urgent.