The dot-com generation, social media, and the myriad of groups on cell phones have created political squabbles, ethnic cleavages, disconnected parents and children, and chaos. We all know this.
However, the Chinese community has the most serious problem because mobile phone groups are indiscriminate. Old classmates, alumni, company colleagues, retired senior citizens, doctors and lawyers have their own mobile phone groups.
Someone becomes an “administrator” and suddenly “pulls you into the group” (a mainland Chinese slang term) without your permission. After you are in the group, you find that most of the hundred or so people in the group don’t know each other, and a few of the names are familiar. Then the group starts a very lively discussion, and although you don’t participate, standing silently on the sidelines, Zhang SanDong and Li SiXi have been popping up on your cell phone screen for 24 hours, such as the Top Ten Golden Hits pop charts, and these groups have been occupying the top three spots on your screen for a year.
If you decide to leave the group without your consent, it is like leaving in public, not giving face and automatically offending a large group of people. In mainland China, interpersonal and interest relations are particularly complicated, which leads to a lot of speculation: if you quit the group, you are unhappy, and the admin will be a bit nervous and ask you in private if he did something wrong to upset you. Who are some people in the group or group that you don’t like? Please bear with me, or for my sake, add them back in, OK?
Or maybe the group was too big, and it was not convenient to talk, so a few others were pulled out, and another group was formed, and they started bad-mouthing a few people who spoke rudely and argued unpleasantly in that big group.
In history, after the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Tianjing, Shi Da-Kai led his troops out; later Zhang Guotao split, Wang Jingwei left Hanoi to form a government in Nanjing, all the same Chinese behavior of pulling groups around the stove, and then retreating to another chat group, the nature is exactly the same, the difference is that there was no mobile phone.
The famous intimidation of “the worst-case scenario is to go to Jinggangshan to fight guerrilla again”, the indiscriminate opening of social media groups, group splitting, retreating from the group and opening another group, there was nothing where to stir up dust, making decades of alumni old feelings for no reason, that is, to bury the pile and fight guerrilla “culture” in the IT era.
WhatsApp, WeChat, IG, face book, the American invention of the iPhone plus a set of communication platform, plus people in the U.S. presidential election, a large group of U.S. and Canada, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, the brave, 1.4 billion people as long as there is a mobile phone, wow, wow, more people turn over chicken and dog jumping in today’s especially intense.
Network globalization, every country’s social media is a different BBQ oven. China’s population has many cell phone groups, there are hundreds of millions of people with many hot pots, but also spicy.
The world doesn’t need a war. So many spicy hot pot, chili soup base tossing, more than the “Great Leap Forward” when the folk burned a small stove like a chessboard, the country big steelmaking.
I’ve heard that so-and-so has turned the tables on his old classmates group. I yawned, and thought: “It’s still Trump.
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