63.9% of respondents’ Moments have set "Visible for three days"
62.8% of respondents feel that using this feature saves unnecessary trouble
Recently, more and more people have enabled the "three-day visibility" function in Moments (a user-set viewing permission for Moments, that is, friends can only view their activities for three days). Relevant departments of WeChat stated in 2019 that the number of usage of the function "Visible in Moments in Three Days" has exceeded 100 million. Is "Visible for three days" set in your circle of friends?
Last week, the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily and the Social Survey Center jointly conducted a survey of 2006 respondents. According to a survey of 2006 respondents, 63.9% of the respondents’ circle of friends has been visible for three days, and 62.8% received Interviewers feel that using this feature saves unnecessary trouble, and 51.5% of respondents feel that they can better protect themselves.
63.9% of respondents’ Moments have set "Visible for three days"
Zhang Xian (pseudonym) in Taiyuan, Shanxi, has been "visible for three days" in his Moments after working. “I work on a real estate-related website. The Moments posted by Moments are all marketing advertisements, which are meaningless.”
In the survey, 63.9% of the respondents’ Moments set "Visible for three days", 32.7% of the respondents did not set it, and 3.4% of the respondents did not have a WeChat Moments.
"Whenever I go to a place, I will take photos and upload it to Moments. Anything happy or unhappy will also be shared in Moments." Chang Yingying (pseudonym), an employee of a business unit in Beijing, said that even good friends in big cities You can’t meet each other frequently. Moments is a channel to get to know each other. "Is she busy lately, whether the relationship is going well, and whether there are any delicious and fun recommendations? These are all information that can be obtained through Moments. If it’s all three days Visible', each other is closed."
Yang Yang (pseudonym) is working on a micro-business, "I sell goods in Moments, so I will definitely not set permissions to prevent people from watching, but there are many people who set up'visible for three days' around, and most people will do this."
In the survey, 79.0% of the respondents said that many friends around use this feature, and 26.5% of the respondents said that there are very many.
Yang Yang said that people didn't post to Moments very much at first, but later they sent it in groups. When the group was too lazy to group, it was directly "visible in three days".
"The content you want to post at the moment is not necessarily something you want to show to others after a while. Maybe the content posted two days ago is particularly "mourning". Now that I feel better, I want to block the previous post." Zhang Xian said .
Regarding why they choose this setting, 51.9% of the respondents do not want to be learned too much about the past by new friends; 46.8% of the respondents are to avoid information leakage and self-protection; 29.8% of the respondents are too lazy to group; 29.2% Respondents believe that this reduces the worry of posting to Moments; 28.4% of the respondents are to maintain a sense of mystery; 20.0% of the respondents are to hide the “stupidity” of the past; 8.6% of the respondents are out of blindness "Retaliation" to other people's circle of friends.
"Some people really don't want to be seen in the circle of friends, but directly setting groups can easily offend people, so they can only make everyone invisible." Yang Yang believes that if you don't want strangers to know too much about the past, you may also set "Visible in three days." "s reason.
Chang Yingying found that those who set "Visible in three days" are not in the state of being sent out very often, and those who are in the state of being posted frequently will not be "Visible in three days." "I have a friend who spends two hours in order to post a circle of friends. First, he edits the picture and considers the text. Then he carefully screens who can see and who can't. Then he carefully grouped them, and then the grouping was messed up every time. There is also one location who can see and who can’t. And her circle of friends is set to be'visible for three days'".
46.1% of the respondents think it is necessary for Moments to be "visible in three days", and 31.9% think it is unnecessary
In the survey, 62.8% of respondents felt that using this function saved unnecessary trouble, and 51.5% of respondents felt that they could better protect themselves.
"One day I opened WeChat and suddenly received more than a dozen likes. I recalled that I hadn't posted anything in the past two days. As a result, a friend who hadn't contacted me for a long time liked all the content I had in the past. She didn't have time to watch Moments during her confinement some time ago. Now that I have free time, I just look through them one by one." Yang Yang said, people who don't care will not visit your Moments specifically, and people who care should not be blocked.
42.7% of the respondents said that setting "Visible for three days" in Moments would make them more closed, 29.2% of the respondents thought that they gave up the opportunity to show themselves, and 19.3% of the respondents felt that it would change between friends Get more alienated.
"Sometimes I think of some delicious restaurants in the circle of friends, and I want to find out and have a look. The result is,'Visible for three days,' and I can't see anything, which is quite disappointing." Yang Yang said.
In the survey, 46.1% of the respondents felt that it is necessary to "visit in three days" in Moments, 31.9% of the respondents felt it was unnecessary, and 25.1% of the respondents said it was hard to say.
"My previous circle of friends would have positioning, and later found out that this invisibly exposed my whereabouts and privacy. The trading of the content of the circle of friends exposed on the Internet shows that the circle of friends is not very safe." Chang Yingying has now set up the circle of friends "Visible for a month", "Everyone must have a sense of privacy protection. WeChat now has too many functions and added too many people who may not even meet. Without knowing these people , I can only protect myself by revealing less information. But I feel that if the Moments of Friends does not involve private information, there is no need to'visit for three days'".
Among the respondents, the post-00s accounted for 4.8%, the post-90s accounted for 38.7%, the post-80s accounted for 44.0%, the post-70s accounted for 10.1%, and the post-60s accounted for 2.1%.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Wang Pinzhi Source: China Youth Daily