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Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by baby on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:01PM (#20136045)
TBF. This is because you only hang out with asian people. I live in the bay too and I don't know many people using wechat :|
Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by dheera on Saturday June 08, 2019 @09:41PM (#20136439)
Mostly, not only, but in any case I'm not disputing that. I'm just expressing that despite the fact that I use WeChat a lot, and need to use WeChat a lot, I still don't actually like the thing. I just like my friends enough that I will grudgingly use WeChat because "everyone" (in my circle) does.
Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by yjhoney on Sunday June 09, 2019 @09:07PM (#20143036)
I feel that someone who really respects their privacy should not hang out with friends who don't respect their own privacy. Because inevitably, their friends will post enough material to compromise the privacy of everyone in the circle.

A year after I stopped using Facebook actively, all of my friends have stopped hanging out with me. It's just me, my family, and my coworkers.

Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by munmaek on Sunday June 09, 2019 @12:22AM (#20137100)
wechat is a chinese application. asian people != chinese.

I hang out with "asian people" all the time, but I use kakaotalk because I'm actually hanging out with Koreans. Or I use line with my Japanese friends.

Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by xenospn on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:21PM (#20136124)
I only use WeChat with my Alibaba suppliers. No one else I know uses it.
Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by kpennell on Saturday June 08, 2019 @10:40PM (#20136710)
lol, yeah. i've never even heard of someone in the bay having it.
Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by munmaek on Sunday June 09, 2019 @12:25AM (#20137111)
It's specific to a certain demographic. Same with Kakaotalk for Koreans and Line for Japanese people.
Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State by chairmanwow on Saturday June 08, 2019 @11:53PM (#20137001)
Asian ==> Chinese