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Original title: WeChat launch of the youth model attracts a heated discussion, with most netizens believing that the symptoms are not the main cause. Source: Titanium Media
On October 2, WeChat iOS launched a youth mode. In youth mode, features such as shake, look, close people, games, and shopping cannot be accessed. Android users will soon be able to experience it. Users need to update iOS to the latest version 7.0.17 to set up youth mode. In addition, users need to verify WeChat password to activate and deactivate youth mode, and users who forget the password can also go to “Me” – “Settings” – “Account and Security” to reset WeChat password.
In the WeChat youth model, some of the original features of the WeChat adult version are restricted. For example, the “Find a search” function is only partially enabled and you can search for content that is deemed allowed to be accessed, such as Moments, emoticons, etc .; however, content such as articles and videos from public accounts that are not followed by the account will not be displayed.
Parents can set the range of access allowed for minors according to the situation.
The news that “WeChat launches youth mode” also quickly sparked heated discussions and rushed to hot search on Weibo. So far, # 微 信 上 线 少年 模型 # has received 340 million views.
However, for the opening of this modality, public opinion has different opinions. Some people think that this is a sense of social responsibility that companies should have, or that young people need the purification of the network environment.
According to Red Star News, in recent years, with the younger age of mobile phone and social platform users, the major social applications have successively introduced youth models. After opening some video applications, “Youth Tutor Mode” will automatically appear, and the frequency of pop-ups will be higher in the near future.
Generally, in “youth mode,” features such as live streaming, reward, and in-city page browsing will be disabled and access to the teen-only content pool is restricted.
In mid-September, according to the 21st Century Business Herald, QQ also launched a youth model. In youth mode, users can automatically block invalid search information and can only search existing contacts and chat logs to reduce interference and improve the efficiency of children’s learning.
Judging from the original intention of companies to prevent minors from surrendering to the Internet, these practices are certainly worthy of recognition.
However, with respect to the “youthful” model launched by the main applications, more Internet users believe that this is a behavior that “treats the symptoms but not the root cause”.
Some Weibo netizens said in response to the youth version of WeChat: “Which teenager will activate youth mode?” Others suggested that the youth mode strengthens WeChat payment control to prevent teens from spending money.
According to the 21st Century Business Herald, relevant experts pointed out that the “post-2000” and “post-ten” generations of young people who have grown up in recent years have grown up in the mobile Internet era, and their future will surely be closely related to the digital world. Nowadays, thinking about the healthy growth of minors can be more from the perspective of how to use information technologies, than from the perspective of restrictions, so the relationship between young people and the Internet has changed from being ” kidnapped “to be” empowered.
