China Overseas Chinese Network, September 8th, title: "Days on the Clouds", are the overseas Chinese still used to it?

　　When did it start that the word "cloud" was given multiple meanings?

　　Cloud chat, cloud cats...

　　With the increasing development of the Internet, these novel lifestyles are gradually changing our lives.

　　When the epidemic hits, the "no contact" life needs make people more dependent on the Internet.

　　The cloud lifestyle is no longer an individual's "earlier" behavior, it is gradually being used in group activities on a large scale.

　　When all aspects of life are surrounded by "clouds", are overseas Chinese at home and abroad still used to it?

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Make people happy and worry

　　Avoid commuting and work freely at home.

　　Milan, a Chinese software engineer who lives in San Francisco, admits that this is the most satisfying aspect of working from home.

　　However, as a new mother, she also has a lot of troubles because of working from home.

　　Milan said that working from home will significantly reduce efficiency.

　　"I used to work with colleagues in the company, I just patted him on the shoulder."

　　After she transfers her work to "on the cloud", she will first set up a meeting with her colleagues, and she will have to say a few words after the connection...

　　Fortunately, she doesn't have to look after the children while working, but this is also annoying to her.

　　On the working day before the outbreak, the couple can give their children to the nursery.

　　During the epidemic, considering the risk of the spread of the virus, Milan asked parents who were stranded in the United States due to the epidemic to help look after their children.

　　This added a lot of burden to the elderly, and she did not want to trouble her parents too much.

　　Compared with the Milan couple, American colleagues are "more miserable" because their family does not have the tradition of elderly people to take care of their grandchildren.

　　Some couples take turns to take care of their children during the working day, and when the children fall asleep at night, the two will work overtime together.

　　Regarding work efficiency, Milan’s husband also believes that working from home will lengthen working hours.

　　"I used to be in the company, I closed the door and left after get off work hours, and now I may still be working after work."

　　Regardless of satisfaction or worry, for Chinese Americans, the changes and discussions brought about by working from home will continue.

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Change your mind and try to adapt

　　After experiencing the Australian epidemic, "following the whole process", but also encountered practical problems of difficult employment and more difficult entrepreneurship.

　　Zheng Yueyue, a Chinese student who graduated from the University of Melbourne this year, had to find another way for her job.

　　She originally planned to start a business and wanted to open a physical board game pavilion.

　　She and her friends personally walked the streets and alleys to inspect the operation of similar stores.

　　The results were not satisfactory, she realized the risks of offline entrepreneurship.

　　By chance, a life topic article she published on the Internet happened to help a low-grade international student.

　　This provided her with a seemingly more feasible way to start a business at this stage.

　　Zheng Yueyue said that sharing and "planting grass" for others is one of her favorite things in life.

　　"In order to prevent new students from coming to Australia from detours, I tried to post a few articles on daily life."

　　She shared her life skills in Australia on the Internet. One of the guides on "How to Really Save Money in Australia" received three or four hundred likes and collections in two days.

　　This gave her a lot of encouragement, and she was determined to keep writing.

　　As a result, there are "long-form discussions" such as supermarket recommendations, second-hand market collections, and online fresh fruit and vegetable ordering.

　　Slowly, local friends from Australia joined her team.

　　She and her Australian friends are building their own website, and find students who are majoring in IT technology to help them try to create a social circle app for lifestyle sharing.

　　Zheng Yueyue believes that young people are paying more and more attention to “online” and all see the benefits of “online”.

　　Life in the "cloud" changes their outlook on employment.

Distance barrier, harvest and touch

　　"Like my grandma", "so touching" "grandma's smile is sad"...

　　An online video of a granddaughter and grandma "talking over the air" caused everyone to make such comments.

　　In the video, a grandmother uses a surveillance system installed in front of her house to voice chat with her granddaughter far away.

　　Grandma raised the flowers she just picked, the stones she picked up on the roadside, the clothes she bought to the surveillance camera...

　　Happy and contented, like a kid waiting to be praised by his granddaughter.

　　The granddaughter told grandma not to always sit at the door.

　　Grandma said, so you can see me.

　　Then, grandma laughed happily and made a "yeah" gesture to the surveillance camera.

　　These pictures made netizens cry out and cry.

　　Of course, it is the grandmother's granddaughter who intuitively feels this warmth.

　　The granddaughter grew up with her grandmother and went to work in Poland when she was under 20.

　　Last year, grandma proposed to move back to her hometown.

　　The family worried that grandma was getting older and that her hometown was remote, so they installed a monitor in the living room and in front of the door.

　　So, before going to work every day, the granddaughter opened the software and found that in the surveillance, grandma was already waiting at the door.

　　The granddaughter said that grandma is her "source of happiness".

　　"When I said I wanted to take a picture of her, my grandma gestured towards the camera Bier and turned her hand over to see if the gesture was correct."

　　She spends 10 minutes a day chatting with her grandmother in a separate space. The topics basically revolve around eating, growing melons, and the new clothes her mother bought.

　　She said that when work pressure is high, watching grandma's surveillance videos late at night can help her forget a lot of worries.

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Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Wenhua

　　In fact, the “cloud” lifestyle is not triggered by the epidemic, it has already penetrated into our daily lives imperceptibly.

　　It's just the severe environment under the epidemic that makes the sense of "cloud" life stand out.

　　Facing this new style of life, some people are anxious, some are willing to accept it, and some are unexpectedly rewarded.

　　What about you in front of the screen?

　　Are you still used to "life on the cloud"?

　　(Reference: Australian network, WASHINGTON, Evening News and so on; Author: Liang different; ID: qiaowangzhongguo)