When I was in China, Tencent Company made a new App name “Wechat”. This app is a social
software that make us easy to contact with each other. Wechat is a cross-platform communication
tool which support single and multi-person participation. Send voice, pictures, video, and text via
mobile phone network. And it has a lot of function like video intercom function, accept messages,
photo/video sharing, location sharing, message exchange, WeChat payment, financial
communication, games and other services. And now We can us Wechat pay in China, Macao, Japan,
Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand… For example, My father and I go to a park and I want eat
something but we leave money bag in home. We go to a shop and use ours phone pay the money
for this shop. And according to database of scientists’ study, there are more than 3 hundred millions
people use Wechat pay in china. And then, Tencent put forward “No cash life” and create a first
“mobile payment festival”. Some people think that wechat promote the development of society,
and some people use wechat everyday and they think that wechat is a convenience app. But a few
people think that wechat changes the world a lot, it has bad influence to people. In my opinion,
WeChat is good for people because of several reason.
At first, many people think that WeChat is convenient because you don't need to carry your
wallet. You can use WeChat in everywhere and every time, so it reduces the chance of being stolen.
So now China rarely use cash pay, some places can only use WeChat because they can save a lot
of time and they can work efficiency in this way. People started to rely on WeChat because people
could use it online shopping, online transfer, money management. Some companies even pay
bonuses or red envelopes on WeChat, so people have a lot of money on WeChat. But from last
year, WeChat started charging people when they wanted to transfer WeChat money to the savings
bank card. As the competition for cashless payment platforms intensifies, it actually brings benefits
to consumers and businesses. A person in charge of parking with a cashless payment platform told
reporters that cashless payment has improved work efficiency: “After WeChat payment, it really
relieved our toll collectors at the administrative toll office from a lot of work pressure. According to
our system statistics, The payment proportion of WeChat payment has risen to 37.5%.”
Secondly, benefit of WeChat payments is that people can avoid taking too much cash with
people because WeChat can transfer money in real time without limit. People don't have to go to
the bank to make an appointment and wait for a large amount of cash, they just need to transfer
it with WeChat. But wechat pay has the same problem as credit cards, that is if someone else knows
other people’s password code, it can cause serious consequences. And in China, a lot of people try
to steal other people's WeChat password code and then they can get money. But WeChat is trying
to increase the security of WeChat payment, they try to make wechat only can enroll in one
smartphone. And WeChat started using real-name system, and people can only continue to use
WeChat pay by entering their id number. So in this way, it can make sure the security of wechat
pay. But the phenomenon of stolen credit cards has always existed, and banks are not looking for
ways to make up for security flaws.
But this is only for young people, and many old people don’t how to use wechat pay, maybe
they even don’t know what wechat is. And some old people refuse to use wechar pay. It can be
attributed to the complexity of smartphone apps and the elderly's distrust of online payment
security. And a lot of old people refuse to use wechat. Because the concept and thinking of the
elderly still remain in the past, many fraudsters use WeChat to deceive the elderly.The data shows
that the higher the degree of “tech phobia” among the elderly, the higher the proportion of people
cheated on the Internet. 71.6% of the elderly people with a high degree of fear have been cheated.
This is because the more the older people are afraid of new things, high technology, and the less
confident of their own abilities, the more likely they are to become scammers.The survey also found
that health care is the type of Internet articles most popular for the elderly. 66.6% of elderly people
who like health care articles were once cheated on the Internet, and they received free red packets,
free mobile phone traffic, and discounted purchases. The proportion of people cheated is high,
more than 50% of the elderly said they were deceived by this information.
And another good aspect of wechat is that we can contact friends and family whenever and
wherever we are. Because WeChat's voice and video functions only need wifi to connect. Unlike in
the past,people can only write a letter and use telephone, but they need to worry about expensive
telephone charges. And for young people, weChat has expanded people’s lives and found more
people with similar interests. You even can contact WeChat and people in the vicinity, and you can
also find a co-tenant and you don't need to go to an intermediary company to find roommates as
you did before. And wechat help a lot of international students, they are easily get depressive
because of lonely. There are also many reasons that cause international students to suffer from
depression. In the course of providing free psychological counseling for international students,
Bruin Study Abroad Workshop concluded that a large part of the reasons for depression in
international students come from the pressure from sudden departure from a homeland to an
unfamiliar environment.For example, In the past, people had to rely on letters to communicate with
their families when they were studying abroad. They could only watch their loved ones to miss their
hometown every year. After WeChat appears, we can contact our family in real time. This is to
reduce the phenomenon of depression in people studying abroad because we can get support and
encouragement from our families when we are sad.
But even some people say that WeChat has made people communicate only on the Internet
and they are no longer paying attention to bits and pieces of life. And they think that it is impolite
to meet people on the Internet because people need face-to-face communication to feel the true
meaning of each other. To be honest, a lot of people are addicted to watch wechat.
Correspondingly, people are also addicted to brushing friends circles. Every few minutes , you
should brush a circle of friends, or you will feel isolated from the world, psychological panic. Think
carefully and fear that these people who rely so much on virtual social networking will lack real
social skillsAnd interaction in wechat can cause people depressed. Because people who deepen
their sense of self-identity through published status and photos are the most vulnerable in reality.
Those beautiful photos and status are the means by which they establish a good self-image and
let them think they are valuable. Over time will lead to depression in the gap between reality and
friends. According to research of scientists, among the 19-32 year olds who participated in the
study, those who brushed social networking sites most frequently every week were 2.7 times more
likely to suffer from depression than those who did not use social networking sites. Of the 1,787
young Americans who participated in the study, they used social media on average 61 minutes a
day and logged in 30 times a week. One quarter of the subjects had a tendency to have depression.
In conclusion, weChat is a platform for the income of the general public. While bringing
convenience to the public, it has brought some negative influences. However, these negative
influences are not caused by WeChat. They are caused by people's psychological reasons and their
own causes those influence. But wechat is really good for us because we only need to use wechat
pay instead of take cash with us and we can use it to contact friends and family in anywhere and
anytime. It’s a useful way for a lot of people who go abroad, because when they use wechat to
contact their parents, they can reduce their homesickness and depressive. Wechat is benefit people
a lot.
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