The first thing to admit is that my online chatting skills are very terrible. After chatting for a while, the atmosphere of the conversation becomes awkward, and both parties don't want to continue chatting.
Previously, in a news magazine, a teacher did not advocate for the establishment of parent groups. The reasons are: first, sometimes teachers don't have time to reply to parents' messages, and parents may think that the teacher is ignoring them; second, online chatting can magnify certain meanings. I deeply understand this second reason.
Online chatting is different from chatting in real life. In real life, what is said is gone after being said once, but in online chatting, the written and spoken words can be read and played back repeatedly. If there are any errors or inappropriate expressions in these words and voice messages, they will be infinitely magnified by this repeated reading and playback. This is very terrible.
Furthermore, some words may have different meanings on the screen. "Hehe" is not clear in its usage in real life, but often has a sarcastic meaning on the screen. In this terrible online environment where even sending a smiley face can be suspected of hiding a knife, some responses that are quite normal in real life can be completely changed on the screen.
The context in the screenshot is roughly as follows: a product wants to implement real-name authentication services, and calling the API costs money (one dollar per request). I suggested that users should pay for this one dollar themselves if they are unwilling to pay for the API call, then their commercial value is basically negligible.
The context in the screenshot is roughly as follows: in a group chat, the topic of a ten-year agreement came up, and then the conversation in the screenshot occurred. In a previous article in the old version of Lin Lin's miscellaneous thoughts, there was evidence in the form of a screenshot of the chat record from last July, which proves that this person knows about the ten-year agreement. It is normal to not know something and ask what it is in real life, but it feels different here.
Then, in the forum for the ten-year agreement, there was a post asking, "What is Kaixiang?" I received a reply like "Are you joking?" when I sought cooperation with the person in charge of a certain blog aggregation project.
I don't know why, but I am very sensitive to the words on the Internet, and I am very worried about whether I have said anything wrong online. The sarcastic remarks and the ability to repeatedly read them make online chatting very terrible. (I even feel that making a phone call is better than chatting on instant messaging tools.)
Finally, instant messaging tools are only nominally instant communication. Often, when you send a message, the other person cannot reply quickly. During this time, you can see what you have sent to the other person, and contemplate it repeatedly. (Because I have been scolded by a teacher in real life for my words on the Internet, I feel tormented and scared.) If you want to retract something that you find inappropriate, you will find that four minutes have already passed. This non-instant communication also has a drawback: when you notice that the other person has sent you a message, they may have already solved the problem. When you ask what the problem is, they won't reply.
I seem to have written before that there is a big difference between having a video call with someone on WeChat and meeting them in real life. The reason is that in real life, I can see your real appearance, not just a picture taken through a camera, transmitted over the network, and projected onto a screen. In real life, I can see you smile and where your eyes are, but it's not possible online.