Preface#
Is WeChat useful? In my personal opinion, it used to be useful, and now it still has its useful aspects. Initially, WeChat can be described as crude, simple, and in line with Zhang Xiaolong's vision. By utilizing red envelopes and group functions, WeChat gradually occupied the market and became mainstream.
I am very disgusted with WeChat. The first time I felt disgusted with WeChat was because of its occupation of phone storage and huge power consumption. The second time was when WeChat started promoting video accounts and subscription accounts, I always came across content that I had not subscribed to. Video accounts were even more disgusting, giving a feeling of "I stepped on shit, everyone come and see."
Can't we have something positive? What we, as users, need is cloud backup of chat records and friend grouping, but these have not appeared.
Life is short, stay away from WeChat#
I still don't understand why we are willing to put all our daily activities such as payment, recharge, socializing, entertainment, reading, and travel in one software, surrendering our privacy and data, and allowing it to censor and regulate content, and dispose and ban accounts?
Why do we tolerate its insulting intelligence with each iteration update, but turn a blind eye to the huge memory that occupies more than 40GB, shamelessly claiming to be a small and beautiful software?
Why can we accept the fact that public accounts do not allow external links, which shows no respect for readers and is a robber's hegemony? Does this comply with the ethics of public communication, the ethics of news communication, and the norms of news reporting?
Why do we have to endure such extreme arrogance, self-importance, and closedness?
Yes, of course, we can find a hundred reasons to rely on WeChat:
• 90% of my friends are on WeChat;
• I'm used to it;
• Because it's convenient;
• ......
But so what?
• We can completely use our own actions to influence more people to not rely on WeChat. If someone doesn't want to download Telegram, we still have iMessage for real-time communication; if someone can't climb the wall and use IG and Twitter, we still have Weibo and Douban to record our lives;
• Even just asking a friend, "How about trying other chat apps?" is not meaningless. Most people won't ask, so asking is the beginning of change. Ask face to face, ask family, colleagues, classmates. Ask during lunch breaks, ask on the way home from school. Ask seriously but gently, discuss seriously but non-confrontationally. Don't be afraid if they think you're strange. There will always be people who think you're strange, but there will always be people who share the same beliefs as you. - Li Ruyi
• Going along with inertia and living naturally is the most comfortable way. But if we are always carried forward by the mainstream, repeating the same life day after day, walking the path that millions of people have already walked, what is the meaning?
• Is convenience really the only value in our lives? The so-called spiritual life does not mean learning aesthetics from experts or artistic creation; that actually turns spiritual life into secular life. The more WeChat becomes a way of life, the more we need to be prepared for it. - Li Ruyi
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No, it's not right, it's not correct, it shouldn't be like this. Why do we live a life where we are fed whatever is given to us, and why do we passively accept everything in our lives? Humans have free will and subjectivity, and they can bravely try various lifestyles and fully explore the possibilities.
Does that mean we don't need it at all?#
But then again, no matter how dissatisfied I am with WeChat, it has indeed become our way of life. We still have to rely on it in our lives, it's a compromise that we have to accept, just like something we neither like nor dislike but have to do.
Links#
This article is excerpted from "Life is short, abandon WeChat"