The economics of loneliness in telephone networking

Some sales "virtual girlfriend" Taobao shop, unexpectedly let the media shocked: 20 yuan a day, can be customized not less than 15 "girlfriend sent SMS", and "Lori, Chinese, Queen, next door ... A variety of personality with your custom. "

According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, a hospital nurse, 2000 yuan a month, in Sichuan province, after careful makeup every night to login yy as a popular anchor, in the teasing and interaction with tyrants users, attracted the latter in a few days for her to buy a cumulative price of up to millions of yuan virtual gifts.

In 2011, Microsoft took out 8.5 billion dollars to buy video-communication software skype--The price is three times times that of PE, and in the acquisition of Skype is still in a loss of business-obviously, such a giant, Microsoft, also difficult to give up its market for news agencies coveted, In order to highlight the importance of Skype, Microsoft even at the global level to suspend the Messenger's brand and operations.

MIT once organised a forum called "The future of social networks," said Mark Schuster, a partner at GRP Partners at Venture Capital, in which he vowed that social networking would not be centralized, "No one needs a social network (Facebook)." As he says, more and more small social products are beginning to flood the business markets of the US and China, roaming the gap between Facebook and micro-credit, making the personification rather than the message itself the node of the social thread.

Chu sings: "Lonely people are shameful", and the air is the taste of entrepreneurship.

On the next official site, there are only two carousel background pictures and download links, as well as a copy of "a phone, the whole world," without any detailed introduction and functional overview of the app.

The logic so expressed seems to be emphasizing the importance of experience, and the mobile application of this main call social also from this year began to put on the occasion propaganda, not only in the promotion of the unilateral "about the frame" Mo, even the concept of product packaging are "electrical love artifact", it is said that the team of the MO is also very silent, "do not want to ignore, Lest ".

Adjacent scene design, there seems to be some ambiguity, as a service provider of telephone networking that provides anonymity--or far from real identity--has dropped access to the user's phone address book, and instead has embraced a number of random calls, leading users into a personalized social scene, with significant and encourage the interactive mode of real-time speech exchange, it seems to avoid the Giants focus on the battlefield, from the point of subculture "quietly grow."

In the United States, even though pornographic films have become more and more popular with the internet, traditional telephone sex (phone Sex) is still thriving, and in the 2010 Hollywood film "Valentine's Day", the white-collar company of Anne Hathaway, who worked part-time on the phone to earn money, flirted with men who were in a mid-life crisis. It's another social world she's hiding from her boyfriend.

Presumably because of risk aversion, the adjacent cut off the lbs module, no city screening function. It sees the emotional economy as the core value of social networking and tries to pull the demand for users and capital. Apart from the neighbors, there are words pill, tease Bee, Ji Ji and so on a variety of phone social mobile applications queue long waiting for financing, as well as entrepreneurs to play the superior position of female users, set up a pay-call mechanism, women can be "price and sell", for each minute of the call charges.

What they have in common is that by bypassing conservative and implicit old social traditions, they are actively pandering to the courage and openness of young people, which is called "the" "Brain" thinking. According to CNNIC's semi-annual statistics on China's Internet development, the 10-19-Year-old and 20-29-year-olds share more than half of all netizens, and these young users are part of the "impatient generation" who do not understand the euphemism for the first intimate contact, Also difficult to accept the efficiency of asynchronous communication, and telephone networking, I am afraid it will be another round of fashion trends.

John Cachopo, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, argues that social ties determine the pressures on each individual and the emotions they produce, and that in order to escape loneliness, people are always willing to pay huge costs, such as marriage is one of them. "Seven years of itching" and other phenomena have long been explained, marriage is not simply "sex" exists, if just want to get the mating pleasure and reproduction of offspring, there are too many forms and means of marriage efficiency is higher than the existence, but people at the rational level will still choose marriage, in the final analysis, is because of infatuation with the feeling of companionship.

This is also the vitality of the dating platform of the internet reasons, in one episode of The Big Bang, Sheldon proudly said, "I have a wide circle of friends on Facebook," but you see, the same wonderful girlfriend that he did not find on Facebook.