Yes, we
know that there are many difficulties to overcome when you use WeChat outside
China. Many people from China could not
understand this, and they often find it difficult to use WeChat with us.
This chapter looks at all of the difficulties and the solutions:
This chapter looks at all of the difficulties and the solutions:
1. People outside China, especially Singapore, use WeChat
very infrequently. Most use it at
most once or twice a week, and many don’t even use it for months. We know that
if you don’t use WeChat for more than 3 months, your account will be blocked
and many people don’t know how to unblock it.
Besides, friend requests in WeChat has a 3-days validity, so infrequent
usage makes it difficult to increase your friends
2. Bias against China and anything from China. Because of years of influence by the Western
media, especially Facebook, Google and the media, many people I know view
anything from China with a negative bias.
If the things from China are good (eg phones very lasting), they will say it is because they use cheap labour. If the things from China don’t work out, they say this is expected. As a result, many people I know don’t know what WeChat is and cannot be bothered about it. With such a low population using WeChat on a daily basis, there is little you can do
If the things from China are good (eg phones very lasting), they will say it is because they use cheap labour. If the things from China don’t work out, they say this is expected. As a result, many people I know don’t know what WeChat is and cannot be bothered about it. With such a low population using WeChat on a daily basis, there is little you can do
3. Don’t know Chinese and didn’t know that there are many
free translation and transcription tools available within WeChat. In fact, I often wrote entire articles in
Chinese by not typing a single word in Chinese.
I speak in English, I speak in Mandarin and I even use articles in copyright-free official accounts like Kaidan Huoban
4. WeChat account gets blocked and don’t know or cannot be
bothered to unblock it. See our earlier chapter
on this
5. Use the Facebook way to use WeChat: search for
strangers, join groups yourself, advertise for just $0.20, post non-stop
advertisements, post non-stop every day and post fake news. All these are forbidden in WeChat and if you
do them, your account will get blocked very fast
6. Use WeChat on an iPhone, which has many restrictions
and cannot download useful apps like Yingyong bao. Some Samsung phones also have certain
restrictions. It is best to use China-brand phones like Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi (but
not Huawei)
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