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On the evening of April 11, 2022, some netizens found that WeChat has quietly launched the "farm" function, which allows you to raise chickens, ducks, geese and other small animals in a few steps. As soon as the news came out, netizens began to try and create a WeChat farm with their own characteristics through various combinations.
In less than a day, the topic of #WeChatFarm# was on the hot search list, with 570 million views on related Weibo topics and over 70,000 discussions.
But what is interesting is that on April 11, the official WeChat account "WeChat Pie" published an article "10 years old, a circle of friends has posted a circle of friends", and is planning to celebrate his 10th birthday on April 19. The circle of friends warmed up for the birthday celebration.
Source: WeChat Official Account
Inadvertently, the WeChat official did not expect that the 10th anniversary of the launch of Moments was not on the hot search. Instead, the small function of "farm" stole the limelight.
gradually silent circle of friends
On April 19, 2012, WeChat released version 4.0 and officially launched the "Circle of Friends" function.
As a social function, users can post text and pictures in Moments, and also share their favorite articles and music to Moments. Users can "Like" and "Comment" on friend circles posted by friends, and can only see interactions between mutual friends.
As soon as the Moments function was launched ten years ago, it immediately detonated the social platform at that time, and everyone was willing to share life and interact with friends through Moments.
The first circle of friends of some editors
But as users get older, many people's social relationships become more complex. In addition to friends and family members, there are colleagues, clients, teachers, and even strangers in the list. In this regard, many users will be grouped when posting Moments, and some friends will be blocked. After a long time, everyone loses the interest in posting a circle of friends.
In February 2017, WeChat launched the "visible in the last six months" function in the circle of friends; a month later, the circle of friends launched the "visible in the last three days" option; in May 2019, after the release of the new iOS version 7.0.4, WeChat allowed The viewing range has added the option of "Last month".
In the WeChat public class in January 2021, Zhang Xiaolong, senior executive vice president of Tencent and president of WeChat business group, shared a set of WeChat user data: 1.09 billion users open WeChat every day, 780 million users enter the circle of friends, and 120 million users publish Moments, including 670 million photos and 100 million short videos. And the number of users who set the circle of friends to be visible for 3 days is also increasing, reaching 200 million.
Features that everyone is looking forward to
In addition to making people gradually "close" their own functions, those willful or "chicken ribs" function updates in the circle of friends have also been complained by everyone. In this regard, the author has sorted out some new functions of the circle of friends that everyone has a high voice and hope that WeChat can improve and launch:
1. Support emoji comments
Since the launch of Moments, everyone has been able to comment on friends only with text and emoji. In December 2019, the official version of WeChat iOS 7.0.9 was released, and some updated users found that the Moments finally supported emoji reply. Then, like a festival, everyone turned the circle of friends into a large-scale fighting scene.
But it didn’t take long for everyone to revel. WeChat suspended this function after two days, saying that it was only a grayscale test before. WeChat did not respond to when it will resume.
2. Post multiple pictures
As we all know, one of the most annoying features of WeChat is that you can only send 9 pictures at a time, and Moments are no exception. But in January 2022, the official version of iOS WeChat 8.0.18 was updated, and one of the new features was particularly noticeable: the circle of friends supports the selection of 20 pictures.
The user thought that he would no longer have to worry about sending only 9 pictures. Unexpectedly, if you select more than 9 pictures, the system will automatically combine the pictures into a video, and even the synthesized video still swallows the picture quality. This operation also Let netizens call "silent".
3. Re-edit function
For the newly released circle of friends, if users are not satisfied, WeChat supports deleting and re-editing within two minutes.
That is, after clicking delete on the Moments homepage, a prompt will appear at the top of the Moments, "You deleted a Moments, re-edit", click "Re-edit", you can directly enter the editing page of Moments, and display the previously deleted The content of the circle of friends, users can continue to edit and then publish. However, if the time exceeds two minutes, the user cannot withdraw, and can only delete the retransmission.
And if there are already many comments or likes before the user finds that the content is wrong, it will become embarrassing to delete and repost. Therefore, the voices for the re-editing function have been very high.
In addition to the above functions, what new functions are you looking forward to launching in Moments? Comments are welcome~