Accompanying running, playing, learning...nearly 60% of the youth interviewed have experienced accompany services
58.4% of the young people interviewed suggested to clarify the content and specifications of the companion service
Accompanying to run fitness, accompany playing games, accompany learning... With the development of various emerging formats, many young people like accompanying services.
However, while meeting psychological needs, such services are often prone to disputes and problems due to the lack of strict standards and norms.
Recently, the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily and the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily conducted a survey of 1535 young people surveyed, which showed that 58.7% of the interviewed youths had experienced companionship services, and 56.3% of the interviewed youths felt that In the accompanying service, it is easy to encounter situations in which the personal setting does not match the actual situation.
58.4% of the interviewed youth suggested that the service content and standards should be clarified, and 58.2% of the interviewed youth suggested that penalties for service violations should be strengthened.
Among the young people interviewed, the post-00s accounted for 17.5%, the post-90s accounted for 56.3%, and the post-80s accounted for 26.1%.
Men accounted for 44.5% and women accounted for 55.5%.
58.7% of the young people surveyed have experienced companionship services, and a higher percentage have experienced them after 00
Li Yi (pseudonym), who is in graduate school, joined an online self-study room during the postgraduate entrance examination. Everyone can study at the same time. "Nowadays, many apps have similar functions, and those who join can study together."
Li Yi felt that if he was studying alone, he would be stressed or unable to learn. It would be difficult to ask classmates to go to the study room.
The online study room can be entered at any time according to your own time.
"Everyone supervises each other together, and the study will be very safe and dedicated."
In the survey, 58.7% of the young people interviewed have experienced companionship services.
Interaction analysis shows that the proportion of respondents after 00 has been higher (65.1%), followed by the post-90s (62.0%), and finally the post-80s (47.4%).
College student Li Ke (pseudonym) was exposed to online companionship services in the year he graduated from high school.
She found on a game software that in addition to online fun games, she can also enter the voice room, where many young people chat.
Later in college, when Li Ke was unable to sleep or was under stress, he found some services that specialize in chatting before going to bed.
"There is an official account and a small program. Someone will tell you a story before going to bed and you can also chat."
Li Ke said that once he was wronged and was in a bad mood, he found someone to chat with him, "She talked a lot with me, comforted me for a long time, and woke me up the next morning. I think she is Very good, I chose her service for almost a week, and didn't use it again until I got busy later."
Lu Tao (a pseudonym) born in the 90s who works in an Internet company used to accompany running fitness and accompany audio programs.
"Maybe when I use this type of service, I will consider more practical needs, not just for novel experiences or to pass the time."
Lu Tao said that although many audio programs are recorded in advance, they are not interactive in real time like live broadcasts, but they can also accompany themselves.
"I often sit on the sofa and listen to these programs after a week of work, and I am very relaxed. If I talk about topics of interest, such as analysis of hot spots or reviews of film and television dramas, I will also listen to the views of the program anchors. It is also inspiring for myself".
“It’s more practical like running fitness.” Lu Tao told reporters that the escort is a former fitness coach of a friend. Later, because of the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, many students found it inconvenient to go to the gym, so they would find a coach to accompany them. Outdoor running fitness.
The data shows that game play (37.2%), run with fitness (34.8%) and chat (30.6%) are the types of companion services that the interviewed youth have experienced more.
Others include: accompanying study (26.0%), accompanying audio program (19.0%) and wake-up call (16.4%).
58.4% of the young people interviewed suggested to clarify the content and specifications of the companion service
Li Ke recalled that when he first entered the voice chat room, he felt that some people sounded younger than him.
Li Ke said that although he did not encounter any problems when using the escort service, he still had concerns. “For some services that involve the provision of services for the opposite sex, there may be problems with sideballs. There are many others that need to be paid for. There is still a lack of clear channels for how to guarantee the rights and interests of consumers. For example, if you are not satisfied with the service, you can only give it a low score, but it is difficult to actually solve the problem."
"If you get to know the opposite sex while playing with the game, you may have the problem of wanting to develop a real relationship, and you may encounter a'sweet trap'." Senior student Liu Fang (pseudonym) feels that some people want to provide companionship services It is easy to confuse the boundaries between "virtual companionship" and real emotions when you come to find a boy or girl friend. "This requires both parties to reach a consensus on the service content and be more clear."
As for the problems that accompany services are easy to encounter, 56.3% of the interviewed youth think that it is to create a perfect persona, which is inconsistent with the actual situation. 51.4% of the interviewed youth think that they use fixed speech and routines to deal with the service target, and 50.8% of the received The interviewing youth believes that they are accumulating money in a disguised form and falling into a consumption trap.
Other aspects include: encountering "sweet traps", deceiving emotions (49.5%), pornographic violations (37.0%) and difficult to define service content, and it is difficult to effectively protect rights (29.1%).
"If we say that accompany services such as chat and sleep coaxing are somewhat arbitrary, services like accompany running need to have certain professional requirements." Qualifications are relatively guaranteed, "I don't know how similar platforms now examine the qualifications of service providers, and whether the platform can play a role as a gatekeeper."
"Accompanying services are a relatively new industry, but young people do have such needs, and they are also more personalized." Li Ke feels that the content and types of accompanying services need to be further clarified and divided, "According to me I understand that most people who provide companionship services are done part-time, and some people may be treated in a casual manner. Although they are not full-time, they should also have professional standards and certain requirements for entry thresholds." .
Regarding the development of companion services, 58.4% of the youth surveyed suggested that the service content and standards should be clarified, 58.2% of the youth surveyed suggested that penalties for service violations should be strengthened, and 53.6% of the youth surveyed looked forward to strengthening the supervision of service providers. 53.3% of the young people interviewed hope to increase the professionalization of services and the barriers to entry.
Other suggestions include: focusing on long-term emotional counseling instead of short-term companionship (42.2%), improving privacy information protection (41.6%), and strengthening service personalized settings (23.3%).
According to the "Beijing Daily" report, in the field of accompanying service economy, in addition to lack of talents, there are also problems of lack of norms, lack of standards, and even gray areas. It is necessary to continuously improve industrial development and related laws and regulations.
"Now there are many accompanying services for different groups, such as parent-child reading for children, accompanying nursing for the elderly, etc.,'accompaniment teacher' is increasingly becoming a professional identity." Lu Tao felt that we need to start from young people. Starting from the need for companion services, further clarifying service standards, and standardizing the development of the industry, "For example, some people want to channel their emotions through accompanying chat, then their needs are not just chatting freely, but the service provider also needs to have Relevant knowledge and skills".
In addition, Lu Tao believes that people who use companion services should pay attention to privacy protection and be alert to personal information leakage.
At the same time, it is also recommended that Internet regulatory agencies include relevant platforms for the provision of services into the focus of supervision.
China Youth Daily · China Youth Daily reporter Sun Shan intern Gu Xinfeng Source: China Youth Daily