Behind the Weibo, the whirlpool of public opinion

At present, Weibo is already the internet in the vast number of users are accustomed to the use of social methods, but, behind it, which hides some of the drawbacks, we must face.

Perhaps when you are using Weibo, you have unwittingly fallen into the whirlpool of public opinion.

Ziqian (not the real name, just the name of the net), is a study in Paris, the students, in the usually He will use Sina Weibo and domestic friends to maintain contact, in his view, it is a good way to keep in touch with acquaintances. But one day, once a beautiful and ordinary life has been broken, but Ziqian on July 5 on Weibo forwarded a message about his alma mater, Nanjing University, a male alumni of the microblog. The microblog said that Nanjing University did not organize students to sing "red songs" before the 90 anniversary of the "71" Communist Party's founding. After forwarding, Ziqian found on his microblog, he was a large number of unknown netizens angry comments attack, and those people said Ziqian integrity has been completely missing.

Ziqian spent the whole night and a person attacked his netizen theory, after he ended and the Netizen's theory, he felt very tired and confused.

Ziqian said he might give up on Weibo because Weibo has "completely lost its meaning" to him, but said he would talk to his girlfriend on Twitter.

The development of Weibo has been very rapid, and its emergence has eclipsed the social networking patterns of the past three or four years.

Because of these two features, Weibo, which is known for its fast messaging and the features that oversee the organization of various organizations, has won some well-known "battles" by saying that Weibo has become famous through events.

In March of this year, some bloggers, through Weibo, made 600 of the ancient trees in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, survive; after the Japanese earthquake, some bloggers also helped quake victims by tweeting.

In July, they uncovered the Chinese Red Cross scandal through Weibo, making it necessary for the Red Cross and other charities to operate under public scrutiny.

However, like all things in life, there is a certain loss, Weibo has some shortcomings.

In a virtual world dominated by microblogs, Ziqian's experience also heralds some universal events. A 28-year-old woman surnamed Zhang, who declined to be named, worked at a television station in Jiangsu Province, where she gave us a description of her recent abuse on the Internet.

After watching a popular talent show, Ms. Zhang released a microblog in a tongue-in-cheek tone (and did not use her real name)-"The show is too stuffy for any innovation." Considering that she is an "insider", she feels that her views are more objective.

However, she was soon subjected to a wave of criticism, and some of the comments were vulgar, saying she did not appreciate art.

"I was frustrated when I saw these comments, and it was like being kidnapped by mainstream thinking," she said. "I will never share my views with anyone else," he said. ”

"I respect freedom of speech, and I think everyone has the right to be open about their ideas," Ms. Zhang wrote on another microblog. "But do not casually attack others, do not take it for granted that everything you say is right." ”

Weibo also makes some ordinary people suddenly become household names, but not by the way they want to be famous.

The 22-Year-old Zhang is an example of this.

After a dating show in Shanghai Oriental TV (shanghai-based Dragon TV), she said that her microblog inbox would be filled with her letters every day, presumably because of her public love of Japanese culture and her failed marriage on the show.

Some netizens have mercilessly vented their anger on her, and some of her microblog fans have even been warned to keep her fans away from Zhang under the "traitor". One message reads: "Tell her to marry a Japanese, and not pretend to be a brazen face in China." ”

Online rumors have become a common annoyance for bloggers and Weibo companies

Ms. Guo, who has a similar experience with Zhang, a household name named after her microblog exposure to the Chinese Red Cross, said she had been followed and even intimidated by her in early September.

The vast majority of bloggers launched a boycott of Guo Meimei's activities, including her online release of a song and her endorsement of the online games. They were sarcastic about her plastic surgery and the constant human flesh in her position. In a recent visit to her in China Daily, Ms. Guo said the netizens ' hatred of her had put her under great pressure and she even considered committing suicide.

"I feel like I've become an enemy of the whole nation," she said. "And the truth is that I was just a silly girl who did something very stupid." But no matter how I remedy it afterwards, no one is going to forgive me. ”

Celebrities are the most likely targets for online public opinion, such as Yang Lan. Yang Lan, a famous TV presenter, has been under a lot of pressure because netizens have linked her to the project projects of the Central African Project. The project is also a controversial topic, since the President of the Central African Project, Lu Junqing, authorized his 24-year-old daughter to administer the project's Fund.

Netizens questioned Lu Junqing's original intention is charity or the opportunity to use the name of donation to make money, all kinds of rumors on Weibo spread.

A recent study by the University of Michigan (University of Michigan) points out that it is important for people to judge whether the news on the Internet is true or false, because a whole bunch of unconfirmed messages are spread all the time on the Internet.

According to the study by the dean of the Humanities and Arts Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in the 2010 China Weibo annual report, Weibo can produce and disseminate ridiculous news, such as "Shanxi Earthquake" and "Jin Yong is Dead" false rumors.

"Users who use Twitter now are usually people who have received a good education in China. But very soon grassroots users will be able to occupy a place, and the microblogging function will be from the "star paparazzi" into social networking, everyone on the internet spit, "Xie said."

China has more Internet users than any other country, according to the Xinhua news agency. But at the same time "fabricating rumors" is a social unhealthy trend, the spread of rumors on the internet is a huge threat to society.

According to Chengian, a sociologist at Fudan University, the microblogging platform appears to breed more rumors and personal attacks than other channels because each Weibo has a limited number of words.

"The word limit makes it difficult to publish a harmonious and fair view of the microblog." In addition, the publication of micro-blogs with extreme views appears to be more popular because they satisfy people's curiosity about the unknown, "says Dr Xiong.

Dr Bear says internet companies should seal off a user account that spreads rumors or slanders others.