How Wechat Affects the Way People Make Friends
Abstract
This paper aims to study how Wechat affects the way people make friends, by adopting the structure of a multiple, single and Likert-scale five-point measure questionnaire. 68 participants joined the research and 66 are effective results. The results indicate that 1) people connect and communicate with their real-world friends via Wechat; 2) few people are forming friendships with strangers via Wechat and this type of online friendship is unstable and is of low-quality; 3) Wechat is gradually replacing the traditional way of making friends with the fast and digital way. However, Wechat’s effectiveness in maintaining friendship is limited while the traditional way still prevails.
Keywords
Wechat, Friendship, Instant messaging
DOI
10.12783/dtcse/ameit2017/12289
10.12783/dtcse/ameit2017/12289
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