Are you familiar with the greeting,
"Can I add you on WeChat?"
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It can seem like every time we meet new friends or colleagues nowadays, the first thing that springs to mind is adding each other on the app.
For some, doing so even represents having a "close relationship" with the other person.
Nevertheless, more than 80 percent of WeChat users report feeling stressed or harassed when they receive an avalanche of messages, according to a study done recently by the app's developer Tencent.
In other words, WeChat can overwhelm us, while also breaking down the boundaries between our work and private lives.
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Just think how easy it is now for bosses to hand out assignments, so long as they have your WeChat contact.
What a way to ruin your weekend!
How about receiving a message about work while you're out on a date?
No matter if you're at the cinema enjoying a romantic movie or having a barbecue in the backyard, you can never cut yourself off from the outside world unless you switch off your phone.
And heaven forbid if you post something in WeChat Moments before replying to your boss first!
Apart from interrupting your leisure time, WeChat can also reduce your productivity at work.
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For many office workers, logging in to WeChat on their computers at the start of the day has become routine.
But what if you get sidetracked browsing the Moments feed, when you should be doing something else?
The app steals our time without us even noticing it, making us suffer the collective delusion that we are busy all the time.
And as if that weren't bad enough, there're the "one-time" friends who take up space on our WeChat friends list.
A handy way to check how many one-time friends you have is to take a look at your chat history with them.
We'd like to bet that you have more than a few WeChat contacts who you never talked to again after adding them.
Plus sometimes, you only sent the initial friend request so you could invite them to a WeChat group or inform them of something for your boss.
That probably goes some way to explaining the abundance of one-time friends in your contacts list.
Source | Chinadaily.com.cn
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