It is very common for children today to have a smartphone. While smartphones are making communication easier, it can get out of control if it is unsupervised. I am sure that in your phone(s), there must be at least one social networking whether it is Whatapps, WeChat, Viber etc. I am particularly more interested in WeChat, a popular social networking app downloaded by millions of users. Available on Android, IPhone, Blackberry and Windows phones.
It is a mobile text and voice messages communication service released by a company in China in January 2011. With WeChat, users are given free subscription for life. WeChat offers users voice and video calls across the globe and besides text messages, WeChat also comes with voice message, walkie talkie and stickers features for their users. Aside from that, WeChat also allow users to make new friends across the globe with their "Shake", "People Nearby" and "Friend Radar" functions.
It is clearly known that I have insufficient storage problem due to Wattpad ( #firstworldproblem ) and the fact that Whatapps always renew my subscription, I do not have the need to try other social networking apps like WeChat or Viber (as of this is written, Whatapps has offer their users free subscription for life. Thank you) Besides, my family members and friends all are Whatapps users. Recently, I have downloaded WeChat for easier communication. From my experience, I would say that WeChat is a combination of Facebook, where it allows users to share their photos and status and Whatapps, where users can send text messages and make free voice and video calls.
I am particularly interested in the "Shake" function where users shake their phones and it connects you with users that also shake their phone at the same time. I had created a profile for myself in the 18 days duration. Since I have been to Thailand lots of time and believe that Thailand is my second home, I disguised as a Thai. I started my profile with a photo of the sexy Britney Spears. It was later on that I changed it to a more conservative picture of an Asian girl and then photo of a Chinese girl without makeup on.
Profile pictures
Personal background
From what I can see, there are lots of guys responded with the intention of having sex chats or video calls. Some of them are very straight forward while others may go round in circles. Most of them are from India and Dubai. Out of almost 100 greetings, only ONE user noticed that it is Britney Spears. Conversation started quite straight forward to wanting another picture of me to confirm my identity or with GIFs of sexual activities. I am also surprised to have greetings from female wanting to have sex chats, which feels a little weird, I would say. Some even went as far as asking another naked/ sexy picture.
As a 22 year old sales girl in a boring bookstore, nothing much can be said. The conversation was very straightforward. Almost 99% of my respondents are in their 20s. While chatting, almost all of the guys said that they are single. During the conversation, I felt some showed a dominance side of them when being ignored or simply when I refused to give another picture. It ended mostly when I refused to send them another picture of myself or block their incoming video calls. I noticed that the guys that I chatted with felt very open to sending pictures of themselves.
Do you know that you can actually turn off the video calls function in WeChat?
When I set my profile picture as a pretty young lady, greetings come from mostly men some with intention of having sex while others, surprisingly wanted to have a real relationship. While most greetings came from India, Dubai and Iraq, there are some from United States, Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Cambodia, New Zealand, Russia and Malaysia. Nature of conversation started with admiration of 'my' beauty and my activity at time of conversation which usually 'on bed, ready to sleep'. With this decent and acceptable profile picture, there are guys that really want to have a normal conversation.
"I" got proposed on WeChat from an Indian guy
That say so much about my love life ( #sadcase ) Joke aside, with the girl without makeup on, number of greetings are much lesser and are very straight forward to sexual topic. Probably because the girl in the picture is not as attractive as the other two but there are still sweet greetings from polite users.
Conclusion that I can make is that I actually chatted with people of different professions and it is very refreshing aside from the sexual remarks. I chatted with an athlete in swimming from Dubai, a fresh graduate gynecologist and a fitness trainer from India. It is actually amazing to come across people from different walks of life if it is for other reason. The fitness coach went to as far as to provide me with tips to lose weight since I am the desperate fat lady who enjoys eating all day long. His tips is to drink lemon with honey or green tea in the morning. Our conversation ended when he asked for more personal questions on my body measurement and a full photo of myself in order to determine the right work out for me. I quitted the conversation as I felt it goes way to far and I am not looking forward to share anything about myself.
I was also being offered to be in a secret relationship with a fat belly guy from Dubai. Though it seems like I am fooling around, I do not have the intention to destroy someone marriage/relationship by agreeing to be in a secret relationship. It comes very straight forward like,
"Are you interested in secret relationship?"
with a fat bellied guy as a profile picture. I strongly believe it is against my moral values even if the profile picture has someone as handsome and charming as Zac Efron or Liam Hemsworth and I, myself despised third parties that destroy people's family.
I knew this fooling around have to stop when I became obsessive with chatting with strangers. Through this period, though I never shared any of my personal details to anyone but I have this feeling that if I am in this any longer, I would slipped something. It is also a waste of time since I spent every 4 hours daily chatting with strangers when I would feel much happier resuming my business or baking or even better spending time with Xiao Ai.
The feeling of being loved, wanted and needed by someone I literally do not have a clue about started to scare me.
Personally, I felt it is very dangerous for teenagers especially those of age of 13-16 or those with troubled family background as they have a higher chances of seeking comfort through chatting. Besides, it is also easier for these sex crazed guys to manipulate them for a sex chat or a sex video calls. Furthermore, I also did some background checks when I realized some of them are in a relationship but still seeking other girl (which in this case is me) for sexual relief. So girls, do not introduce WeChat to your boyfriends or either way be careful.
When I imposed as a 7 year old innocent girl, a 24 year old guy responded to my shake. He approached by asking personal questions like name, age, family background before he went to more sexual related questions like if I am aware of sex, do I watched pornography and have I ever seen a cock?
"Do you want to see my cock?
You have cock? Do you chickens too?"
This can be consider as child sexual grooming where sex predators are teaching children to sexual related stuffs. Sex predators actually approached children as a friend to establish a relationship before proceeding to their goals. I do not think that at the age as young as 7, children should be exposed to words like 'masturbate', 'cocks', 'sex' etc. I hope there would be laws against child sexual abuse to protect our innocent children against exploitation of these activities.
My draft entry actually ended with,
[ I actually wanted to continue with a profile of a handsome guy, finding girls (thou I think it is tough as mostly only guys are using the Shake function. Horny guys to be specific) but decided against it as Chinese New Year is coming in 3 weeks time. If I don't publish this now, I think I would never share this out. (but I did now) My semester commence right after Chinese New Year. I will be in my busy and hectic schedule again. Besides, I have lots of spring cleaning to do and baking waiting for me. I cannot promise when I will be back for the next entry but this entry on WeChat is actually quite meaningful to mark my 200th post and 10,000 views.
A quick update on what is going on. I actually obtained a 2.33 CGPA for my Year 1 Semester 1. It is expected but nevertheless, I am still quite disappointed. For Microbiology, I managed to score a C which is a sad news but I did struggled with it. On 2016, I vowed to continue losing weight to 60 kg which is another 8 kg more to go and study harder to obtain a better CGPA for my second semester. ]
I have done my part to reach out to Members of the Parliament for laws against child sexual abuse and hope you can too. You can do a part by clicking on http://www.predator.my/ and influence your MP vote against sexual grooming. I am ending this entry with a screenshot of a recent news which is quite related with our topic. So, DO IT NOW!
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