Manners When Using WeChat

WeChat has been used in China for 8 years. We rely on WeChat to contact friends, watch news and pay the bill. WeChat is indispensable to Chinese life. 

But do you really know WeChat's social manners?

Today, we have brought you a test - "the first national WeChat manners foundation test". Let's see how many points you can get.

  01  

如果你还有某人的微信消息放着没回复，不要在回复前发朋友圈。

If you left someone's messages unanswered, don't post anything new on Moments before you answer them.

  02  

不要在朋友圈发你和别人的对话截图，除非先打马赛克。

Don't post the sceenshots of your conversations with others on Moments without adding mosaic.

  03  

不要发60秒的长语音，也不要发OK一类的一秒语音。

Don't send a voice message as long as 60s. And don't send a voice message that contains something as short as an "OK".

  04  

不是特别亲密的话，不要发语音，别人不一定能听，也不一定想听。

Don't send voice message to someone you're not close to. They may not be able to listen to it. And they may not want to.

  05  

不要给别人很久以前的朋友圈点赞，别人会觉得你在调查他。

Don't give thumbs-up to the posts that someone posted long time ago. It makes people feel like that you're investigating them.

  06  

不要连续点赞别人的一堆朋友圈，别人会觉得你在例行公事。

Don't give thumbs-up to a bunch of someone's posts in a row. It makes people feel like you're just doing it as a routine.

  07  

别发“在吗”。那是人家的微信，他不在谁在？有正事直接说。

Don't ask someone "Are you there?"

It's their WeChat accounts, of course they are there.

If you have something to say, say it.

  08  

别给微信运动垫底的人点赞，那不是赞美，是侮辱。

Don't give thumbs-up to someone who ranked at the bottom of the WeChat Exercise. They won't take it as a compliment or encouragement. They'll take it as an insult.

  09  

P图不要只P自己，也不要把朋友P得太失真。

Don't only photoshop yourself in a group photo. And don't photoshop others beyond recognition.

  10  

长期不联系的人就不要去问有没有员工优惠了。

If you haven't contacted someone in a long time. Don't ask them for employee discounts.

  11  

不要说“有句话不知道当讲不当讲”，谁都知道你打算讲，而且现在谁都知道你虚伪。

Don't say things like "I don't know whether I should say this or not."

Everybody can see that you already plan to say it. And now everybody knows that you are fake.

  12  

不要发“只有我一个人这么觉得吗”，大家可能根本不在乎你怎么觉得。

Don't post things like "Am I really the only one who think this way?"

There are not that many people who care about what you think.

  14  

别用合照做头像，不然不知道哪个是你。真那么想用那张合照的话，就用成朋友圈封面。

Don't use a group photo as you avatar, or many people won't know which one is you. If you really want to use that photo, use it as the cover of you personal homepage.

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Are there more manners to be added? 

Please feel free to write comments below! 

Today's Takeaway

微信 wēixìn WeChat

朋友圈 péngyǒuquān WeChat Moments

群聊 qúnliáo group chat

自拍 zìpāi selfie

语音通话 yǔyīn tōnghuà voice call

视频通话 shìpín tōnghuà video call / facetime

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See you next time.

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