According to the latest data, WeChat users have exceeded 1 billion. Before we know it, the social map quickly seeps into our lives without us knowing it.
We spend our time researching what new features can be developed, showing off the fresh experience brought by high technology and extreme convenience, but we don’t have time to think about the pros and cons, because the world is changing so fast, it will be out of place if we don’t keep up.
At such a juncture, such a film was born, and this is an ambitious film. It focuses on one of today's hottest trends, which is social networking.
He created a god-like man like Steve Jobs, combined with the background of Facebook, and borrowed from Jack Ma's father's payment, he created a new social kingdom "circle" like a pot of porridge. But this "circle" is not just a social app, you download it and then use it to improve your life, it has a bigger purpose in itself.
Many people are envious of working in such a high-tech company, so like thousands of people "beyond the fence", our heroine Mae (Emma Watson) joined the company with great joy, albeit only in She works in the customer service department, but she is very excited as a newcomer and feels like she has discovered a new world.
All of us feel that we will see the latest cool technology next and how social networking can change our lives. But something weird happened.
First of all, everyone in the circle seems to be imprisoned, living in such a paradise.
Everyone's information will be collected and stored, and everyone is like a researched experiment, all recorded inside and out. Your whereabouts will be known at any time. Your scope of activities should be in the circle, because there are various activities arranged for you. If you take leave on weekends to go home to see your parents and work disconnected, the company will not be able to find you. Then you're in big trouble on Monday, and you're going to be questioned over and over again.
This raises a question: Is privacy still important when your insides and outs are in front of everyone?
Mae's (Emma Watson) friend, Mercer, tries to escape the public eye after being fleshed out. However, in the so-called spiritual search session, when he was targeted by the cameras, he fled in a hurry, but unexpectedly suffered a traffic accident and the car rushed out of the high price and died, which caused an uproar.
There are too many onlookers in this world, they are afraid that the world will not be chaotic. There are also too many people in this world who don't know where the limit is. They think they are the people's police, but they bring dark clouds to the lives of others. There are two types here.
The first is to catch fugitives. In order to ensure the safety of others, if you can use the power of social networks to catch fugitives and help social order, this is a worthy thing in itself. But at the same time, if after catching this person, you start to use the power of the Internet to dig the bottom of this person and search for his past history and people related to him, it will cause trouble to others.
The second is purely out of personal desires. You hate someone very much, or someone accidentally bumped you when you went out today. You search for the other person’s flesh and attack them, and the other person may encounter more. Personal attacks.
If you do anything, you have to share it with others, even those netizens you have never met, just like Mae's live broadcast, except that she has 3 minutes to turn off the camera when she goes to the toilet, the rest of her life should be appreciated by the world and discussion, and her parents' bed affairs were even accidentally broadcast to the public and became the talk of people after dinner. Is this really a good thing?
The part that is presented under the magnifying glass arouses people's desire to spy in the dark. For spectators, the social network enables you to become another person and speak freely. It gives you the freedom of speech and identity disguise, but it also exposes The ugly side of human nature. Your language and the public opinion environment triggered on the Internet may have an impact on someone's life in real life, and even change their life trajectory.
Privacy is important and everyone needs room to breathe. The search function of social networks must have its own limits. We say that "there are no fish when the water is clear, and there are no apprentices when the people are perfect". Curiosity killed the cat, and the other thing is: everyone is so empty, you have to take care of yourself first.
Today, when social networks are wirelessly open, many people even start to step back and choose not to share their lives, just to better preserve their privacy.
Second, its ambitions are actually bigger.
There are political metaphors involved. For example, to interfere in the U.S. election, such as officials announcing that all their phone calls and emails will be made public, so that everyone can understand their transparency and political integrity. That in itself is ridiculous.
Technology companies want to dominate the public opinion in the general election, and they want to set off a bloodbath because of their own technological innovation capabilities. , and to intervene in the trend of the national situation, jump from your own technology field to the political arena, you should also look at your own position. First of all, you are a citizen of a country. Second, your innovations can improve the living conditions of the people of the country and make life more convenient; but most fundamentally, you must serve the country, not try to rebel. This is a dead end.
Finally, a word on democracy.
What is advocated in the circle is to build a democratic kingdom. Its main content is generally in this kingdom, there are no thieves, no criminals, absolutely safe, you can decide your own preferences, all decisions are arranged by yourself. Absolute democracy and absolute freedom.
This in itself is a false proposition. So far, absolute democracy has no real foundation and soil. The problem is too complex, and there are too many constraints in the implementation. Is it possible to be relatively democratic? I think it works, but not as messy as in the movie. Everything needs to have certain behavioral rules to be implemented, and then there will be a normal state that conforms to social stability. If absolute democracy means doing whatever you want, wouldn't the world become a devil's paradise, and all kinds of things in Pandora's box will be scattered in the world.
Tom Hanks has become such a person with a sense of vicissitudes, and I suddenly find it hard to accept. Emma Watson always felt that she didn't have the acting skills she should have, and the performance still lacked tension. The idea of the story is good, but the coherence of the performance is lacking, and the structure of the story is still debatable, especially the transformation of the plot and the foreshadowing before and after.
The convenience of social networking is not necessarily good. According to statistics, because of WeChat, people's working hours have increased by an average of 2 hours per day. Why? Because it is very easy to let you work. If the leader forgets something, he will tell you in WeChat, and then you can immediately start working. If there is any urgent time, you can create a group in WeChat and assign tasks to it. What about execution? Technology has changed your life, indeed, technology makes you always out of work, hehe.
People who love carnivals, social networking itself is a double-edged sword.
And the watershed among this is still in us. Our ethics, our human values, our empathy and conscience.
Welcome to pay attention to Lin Xiaolu's personal WeChat public account and tell you a nice story. Let us laugh and scold life happily and fight for each other.
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