你的朋友圈屏蔽爸妈？他们也屏蔽你！| Are your parents' moments invisible to you?
Of every five persons in this world, one is Chinese.
Of about every five persons in China, one is a senior citizen.
Of every five senior citizens in China, one uses the instant messaging app WeChat.
According to a report released by domestic internet giant Tencent on Wednesday, the number of WeChat users aged between 55 and 70 in China reached 61 million by the end of September.
That's 22 percent higher than that of last year, but still lower than the 20 percent of all citizens of that age group.
More interestingly, about 2.7 percent of the senior citizens set their "moments" invisible to their families.
In comparison, another official survey this July shows that 25.8 percent of youngsters do the same to their parents.
One of the primary reasons of the youngsters doing so is to avoid too frequent interaction with parents and family members via WeChat moments.
"Mom clicks 'like' on almost every piece of update on my moments," Cattie008, a micro blog user, wrote, "I cannot say I dislike my mom's deed but it is really tiring."
More reports show that many pupils in primary and secondary schools choose to use QQ, another instant chatting app that used to be popular in the 2000s, instead of WeChat to avoid letting their parents see their moments.
"You ask why more senior citizens are using WeChat? Isn't WeChat an app for seniors only?" Marveled Zhao Jiaqi, an eight-year-old pupil at primary school in Fengtai district, Beijing.
Zhou Ruoqiong, a professor on social studies from Shenzhen University, attributed the reason to different age groups' different views on family.
"For youngsters, moments are a channel for making friends, interacting with them, and enlarging their circles; But many seniors have no circle to enlarge," she wrote in a report released this July, "In other words, the family is more important to seniors than the youngsters."
The latest report also shows that seniors tend more easily to fall prey to telecom fraud and other traps online. They also tend to spread rumors more, especially health rumors.
About 43.5 percent of the WeChat users that trigger the anti-rumor mechanism of WeChat are over the age of 50, much higher than other age groups, according to the report.
Yuan Lanfeng, a researcher from University of Science and Technology of China as well as a popular micro blogger, said that has much to do with lower education levels of the generations in the 1960s and 1970s.
"Without proper science education, it is really hard for people of that generation to distinguish rumor from truth", he said, "However the situation will gradually improve with enhanced education levels in the future."
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