With the popularity of smart phones, ten years ago, on January 21, 2011, WeChat officially came out.
Screenshot of WeChat 10th Anniversary Event Page
Ten years can change many people and things.
Those old friends who synced from the QQ friend list seem to be in contact nowadays.
The ever-increasing number of friends occupy our new lives.
Among them, there must be many people who like sports.
From Li Na's French Open championship, Yao Ming's retirement from the NBA, to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics and the spread of the epidemic to the sports world... In the past ten years, they have used their circle of friends and dialogs to record, express, and convey this love.
Data map: Li Na lying on the playing field after winning the French Open in 2011.
group chat
The connection between people, with the birth and promotion of WeChat, the cost of communication is decreasing.
The chat group function has narrowed the relationship between members of any small circle.
Move your finger, or press and hold the record button to say a few words, and the message you send will be delivered as soon as possible.
Friends groups, family groups, work groups, class groups, parent groups... all kinds of group chats have emerged along with WeChat.
Of course, some of them are linked to sports elements, such as fan groups and spectator groups.
Screenshot of WeChat 10th Anniversary Event Page
As small as every star, every team, as large as every project, every sport, as long as you have a passion for a certain field of sports, you have the "qualification" to join the group.
All you need is a simple invitation, or you can create a group independently to pull like-minded people around you into your circle.
The emergence of group chat, one pass ten, ten pass a hundred, brings together people with similar sports beliefs.
The more you rush to the important node of the event, the more active these groups you are in.
People in the group, no matter what occasion they are in, as long as they have a mobile phone with a WeChat account, they can share their sorrows and joys, laugh and swear at any time.
WeChat makes people who love sports no longer lonely.
Data map: The fans cheered for the home team at the scene, and there were still people shaking hands.
Photo by NBA China
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The role of mobile phones in human society has long been more than just a tool for communication between people.
The function of WeChat has also been continuously improving with the upgrading of smart phones.
For a long time, people have long used this software as a simple chat tool.
The word "WeChat" has been integrated into the lives of many people.
The acquisition of information has been incorporated into many of its service functions by WeChat early.
From the dialog link to the opening of the circle of friends, from the official account to the video account, the WeChat platform with a huge user base continuously innovates and simplifies the channels and paths of information dissemination.
The chat interface of WeChat
Today, information acquisition often happens inadvertently.
Friends in the group chat will leave a message in the early morning about Liverpool's victory in the Champions League, and will also share an analysis report on the prospects of the Tokyo Olympics in the evening; in the circle of friends, video clips of Ronaldo Messi’s goals appear in turn, at the door of the house. The game, the ticket purchase link is also everywhere.
And all of this is due to the fact that you spend a few minutes reading WeChat instead of cumbersomely searching the website through the browser of your computer or mobile phone.
In the WeChat era, the barriers to sports reading have been lowered.
Data map: After the Tokyo Olympic Games announced the postponement, pedestrians took photos with their mobile phones in front of the changed time cards.
Refresh
The circle of friends gathers the focus of attention of the surrounding people, and many people sometimes refresh the habits of the circle of friends from time to time.
Everyone has encountered the situation of refreshing the screen.
The experience of being swiped by the same person may not be good, but when everyone you know is discussing the same thing, it will form a rare spectacle in the circle of friends.
More than two years ago, the e-sports team IG won the championship and once had an impact on the circle of friends.
Represented by this, some sports events always flock to specific WeChat Moments sections from time to time.
Screenshot of WeChat classic page
Sports are full of passion, and passion needs to be released.
The circle of friends has become the first place for spectators and witnesses to express their opinions.
Even a person who has no interest in sports, as long as he knows some friends and has the habit of making friends, he will definitely know the arrival of every World Cup and Olympic Games.
If you look more carefully, you may still be disappointed with the staged performance of the National Football Team and Zhou Qi.
The sports carnival that every time you swipe the screen is not only a gathering of sports fans, but also a personal display of your identity and standpoint.
And you are among them.
WeChat has become a fast channel to highlight the sports atmosphere.
The IG team won the championship in 2018, a sensation in the circle of friends
expression
Behind every circle of friends is the desire expressed by people.
In a society where opinions collide, everyone enjoys the freedom of expression, and sports itself needs expression.
As a gathering place for different opinions, WeChat has become the first choice for people to communicate in almost every game, before and after the game.
In competitive sports, the process is often ups and downs, and every turn can stir up waves in people's hearts.
At this time, take out your mobile phone, chat with relatives and friends, chat with group friends, chat with circle of friends, and capture and share the pleasure of instant feeling, which becomes effortless.
Data map: On July 26, 2020, spectators watched the game between Shanghai Jiushi Team and Shan Dongxi Wang Team.
For the first time in this game, spectators watched the game live.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Guo Xulei photo Source: Xinhuanet
As long as there are sports fans, there can be exchanges of opinions. There is no need to worry about space constraints. Once upon a time, such feelings sounded out of reach.
The development of technology has changed the digital lifestyle, and the world of sports fans has also benefited.
At least in WeChat, expressing this is not cumbersome at all.
Dynamic screenshots of WeChat publicity creative group "group chat"
growing up
In ten years, not only WeChat is growing, but sports is also growing, and so are people in the circle.
"The father of WeChat" Zhang Xiaolong said that if the ten-year history of WeChat must be summarized in two words, one is connection and the other is simple.
These two words can sum up a lot.
Ten years ago, webcasting was not even popular in the sports circle. Back then, the student party would remember the days when the text broadcast of the game was watched with a mobile browser.
Looking at the present, the connection between sports and people is closer and simpler. Many details and habits of life have changed with the development of digitalization.
Standing at this moment, while lamenting the changes that WeChat has made to people's lives in the past ten years, it seems that these have nothing to do with WeChat itself, but lament this ever-changing era.
(Reporter Wang Sishuo)