A year and a half after the suspension of moments

it has been a year and a half since I stopped using my moments on Wechat in early 2016.

after shutting down moments, I didn't realize it the first time, but one of the things I realized most strongly so far is that without moments, you don't have any friends. I actually wrote this in November 2016, but I can't help but take it out and write it again today.

only when I stop using moments completely did I realize that Wechat's strongest social function is moments, not chat boxes. I had the benefit of hindsight because as early as 2014, I met a film industry who lamented that he wanted to talk about cooperation with the star, but the star was vague all the time. As a result, she "liked her friends every day for three months," and "she was finally moved." When I saw this paragraph at that time, I had no idea what it meant.

I think the most successful thing about Wechat so far is that it can give almost all users a strong illusion that "I have a lot of friends /I have a lot of useful social connections /a lot of people care about how I feel". The reason why WeChat is great is that if you always follow the logic of the world and perfectly implement the rules of the game, you will find that this is the case. It is only when you decide to say goodbye to this game that you will find that everything in the past has gradually disappeared-so it is even difficult to tell whether it is an "illusion".

after stopping using moments for a few months, I began to feel clear that most of the "friends" who had come together for various reasons had disappeared, and there was almost no such thing as "sending messages to each other" except for a few old friends. And because of Wechat's absolute monopoly in today's society, when you don't have WeChat contact with a person, you have no contact with him in any way.

this seems to be a puzzling thing because this situation does not exist at all when one uses Wechat and moments frequently. The connection between people seems to be very close, and there is a feeling that they are like-minded and talk about everything. Sometimes I even wonder if it would be better to switch the moment's conversation to the chatbox. Then I suddenly remembered, isn't this what people realized in 2014?

recently, there was a popular article called "the Internet is over, already". Its main idea is that in the first two or three decades of the birth of the Internet, it has been adhering to the spirit of decentralization, open-source, sharing, anonymity, and reliability, but when the Internet industry began to give birth to giants, especially after the emergence of the mobile Internet, these characteristics are gradually replaced by centralized, closed, real-name, perishable and other attributes (whether it is still difficult to keep "sharing" in a word). I'm sure anyone who thinks a little bit about this will feel the same way because many of the things that are obvious now are clearly against the will of the mainstream and advocated when the Worldwide Web was born or in the ascendant.

in the past ten years when we grew up and grew old, almost all things related to the Internet are big ones, eating small ones, new ones engulfing old ones, and later wiping out the old ones. You can say that the Internet makes you buy all over the world, browse moments, BBS talk about the past and the present, and call a taxi to the door. But first, these things are not completely nonexistent in the past. Second, even if they are truly innovative at first, they will soon follow the old path of mergers and monopolies. We can see that the closer we get to today, the more violent this will happen.

this matter is obvious on Wechat. In the past, you may have had many ways to connect with people, and if the connection properties are different, the objects and tools involved are also different. But now, there's almost only Wechat left, and Wechat even has moments left. Either you use moments, but you have to accept the rules and rules, and you have to bear the kind of social anxiety that everyone can feel, or you don't use moments, but you abandon the last rope that leads to a lot of social relations. Have to face the consequences of interrupting it. In essence, it's kind of ridiculous.

according to the fundamentalist spirit of the Internet, if you like sports, you should visit Tiger Pop; if you like IT, you should go to Tiger sniff; if you like science, you should look at fruit shells; if you like games, you should browse NGA. To say a little more, whether you are playing online games or stand-alone, genuine or pirated, Blizzard or Steam, or even different kinds of games with different (hardware) platforms, the places you want to go are different. But we can see that Wechat covers all kinds of needs of a person nowadays. There is not only one app for Wechat, but giants like Tencent are trying to cover everything in all fields. Like a game, if you ask an experienced player who has played for tens of thousands of hours, he can tell you that this kind of work can reach much wider and deeper than most people can imagine. But we know that an "Arena of Valor" has pocketed 90% of the attention, traffic, and even profits of today's Chinese games.

this shows one thing, that is, when the group acquiesced to the rules of the game of today's mobile Internet, the group acquiesced that it could manipulate everyone's thoughts and behavior at will. Just as Wechat has finally reconstructed not only the social way of contemporary Chinese people but also the thinking and logic of each of us gradually. The most helpless thing, it seems that there is no way to resist. If everyone in the company and school is playing "Arena of Valor" and you don't, you are a loner; and if you want to stop using moments or even uninstall Wechat, you will be in big trouble, you are almost against society.

many people have written articles criticizing the utilitarian tendencies of today's society. The subtleties of Wechat and moments are deeply related to this. But even critics (including myself) are often not immune from vulgarity, and I tend to deal with these things. It's understandable. A person who has been hungry for too long always talks about eating, just as with the development of civilization, there is no such thing as having the last meal without the next meal, but people will still overeat because of the worries and fears accumulated in the wild times. or eat high-fat, hot snacks and desserts after meals.

the most typical feature of utilitarianism is that things must talk about results. If something is not good, it is meaningless and there is no need to exist. Why do you start to be anxious when you post moments that no one likes in five minutes, and you will be satisfied if you are liked 100 times in five minutes? It's all about vanity. Filling the emptiness of each other constitutes the most basic way to play in moments, where people build close and weak ties and confirm each other with messages but more likes. "will you continue to play the game with me?" But when someone opts out, no one pays attention. Because usually when a person needs to be recognized, he doesn't care about the exact source of identity.

when a person wants to get in touch with another person, he will naturally think, "what good does the other person do to me?" This benefit can be a lot of things, such as unsolicited messages, likes in moments, a circle of friends that I recognize, the content I created or forwarded was forwarded by him, red packets, group chats, and so on. However, what if you don't use What's core function, moments, and you haven't had any communication with him recently? I can assure you that if you do not have any "good" connection in real life, there is at least a 90% chance that this friend will cease to exist. If you don't believe it, you can try to stop using your moments completely for three months and don't take the initiative to talk to anyone. After three months, count how many people will contact you besides colleagues, classmates, relatives, close friends, and other people who use offline interaction as the main carrier.

this thing has been experienced and thought about too much, and people's thoughts can easily fall into the abyss of nihilism, feeling that everything is nothing more than this, or even nothing exists. Interestingly, however, Wechat and moments themselves are not the places of original sin, because some things have been happening since ancient times, otherwise, there would not be so many celebrity hermit stories handed down to this day.

A lot of people talk about features like moments, the app on the phone, and even the phone itself, always have a strong desire to break up. Even as soon as I saw the title of this article, some people may have made up the content of the article I didn't expect that what I wrote was different from what I imagined. Including I lamented the nothingness in Douban's moments, and some people asked, "if we let go of this investment, we can gain more growth?" This kind of thinking is not another form of utilitarianism.

I don't like platitudes on an issue, not only the existing point of view is not new, suspected of plagiarism, the most important thing is that it contains laziness and opportunism. Just as the idea that Liu Xiang is not a sinner but a hero has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, whenever it comes to a topic that has nothing to do with it, there are always new people who take the trouble to rewrite it, exaggerating the miserable situation of Liu Xiang in June when he was looked down upon by others. I mean, what's the point of writing this story ten thousand times, besides cheating praise?

when it comes to moments, what we talk about most is how bad it is in moments. So-and-so quit it, suddenly he can read books, lose weight, his career is going well, his mood is better, meals are good, sleep is good, life seems to be soaring up, like browsing moments and taking drugs. If everyone's life could be explained and driven by this simple logic, that person's life would not be so difficult. But this kind of creature always seems to be contradictory, living an extremely complex life while flocking to the rough and withered "truth".

when it comes to moments, some people don't realize how time-consuming it is, and some people take it too seriously. For the former, you can count the power consumption and usage time of Wechat. Concerning the latter, you should know that both Wechat and "Arena of Valor" only fill the gap saved by the progress of civilization that does not exist originally. To put it bluntly, this part of the time will be wasted.

what can you do when you are crowded in the subway, waiting in the station, sitting on the toilet, or sitting on the sofa? We were just tolerating the tiredness and boredom of life. Many people talk about the use of leisure as reading books to learn English and other platitudes even those who read books and learn English are very inefficient in this situation, and there is no lack of such opportunities. What's more, people who read books and learn English are already very few in the crowd, so why do people always use the standards of a very small number of people to measure their ordinary life as a member of the public?

in the final analysis, the stronger a person's desire to quit something, the less likely he is to do it, and he doesn't intend to do it. The people who let it go like me did not encounter any resistance at all and there was no withdrawal reaction at all. When have you ever seen a person who clocked in to read, lost weight, and got up early in the moments who did it?

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browsing on moments fills up the time in life that needs to be filled. I don't want to brush it anymore, which proves that it is boring. The right way is to replace it with something interesting, not something meaningful. Thinking in this way will not lead to a good result, it will only return to boredom because "meaningful things" can not be done, and will only fall into a vicious circle from boring to more boring in the end.

so, after stopping using moments for a year and a half, you have to ask me where the change is, and I don't think it has changed. I think some good things have happened, but it's not the benefit of not using moments. I think some bad things have happened (such as the loss of "friends"), but considering that Wechat seems to have broughtI'm hallucinating, in the end, I can't seem to blame Wechat. Many good and bad can not be so simply and rudely attributed to yes or no reason, in different times, in other contexts of other countries, in other larger worlds without "moments", in the infinite possibilities of the future, "moments" can be replaced with thousands of different concepts, but there are only a few essential problems that come and go.

everyone has his or her fate held by the times. In the past, this fate may depend on the material level, objective conditions, and technical reasons, but now when these barren and backward are drifting away, some reasons will also be difficult for the ancients who are used to scarcity and imperfection (if they can feel it). Just like today, if there is a person who completely refuses to use Wechat or even refuses to use a smartphone, he can be "eliminated by society", but he has only made a personal choice, can you say that he is wrong?

two days ago, a very good friend of mine got married, and he announced it in moments. As a result, I didn't see it and congratulated myself in time because I didn't have a circle of friends. In retrospect, I feel that it is understandable whether he cares about it or not. Care: released the wedding news, did not see it in time and did not congratulate, as a friend is not appropriate. Don't care: it's really strange to send a message about this kind of thing. It's normal to send a message without seeing it at your moment. As a friend, you should understand. However, no matter whether the facts are concerned or not, I can only think for myself here that the matter itself is completely beyond my control.

all I can do is my personal choice, that is, to continue to deactivate moments as I do now, whether the choice is good or bad in the end. If it is doomed to what the result of this choice will be, I think I should accept it calmly, because if a person worries about things beyond his control, he will probably only live a tired life.