Several years ago, Sina.com provided a service called blog in the Internet. During its early years, few people knew it and almost nobody used it. This small group people used it to write diaries and keep photos. However, they usually did not know each other, so it was very hard for one to visit another's website, which caused few interactions and communications took place on it. Besides, the things that post on the blog were regularly a whole essay or a series of photos, it was not convenient that people had to sit in front of computer for a long time to post a blog. The first time I used it was in the year 2007, to see the travelling photos of my friends, and it was also the last time.
In 2009, a new social media called micro-blog came out, also was provided by Sina.com, but in this time it really made different. Firstly, micro-blog was an app in the mobile phone, and unlike blog, it did not need to write a whole essay, what to write could be a sentence, a photo and even an emoticon, so people can post it whenever like in a few minutes. More importantly, it could be related to contacts on the phone, so one could easily become another's follows and comment on it, which was called interaction.
For the reasons mentioned above, the number of users of micro-blog is much bigger that of blog, so micro-blog has become the biggest online social media. In this big platform, many derivative products such as micro-blog shop appear and become popular, micro-blog is not only a tradition sense of online social media. I will talk about this next time.
source：http://top.weibo.com/
沙发!
回复删除Maybe some students who are not familiar with Mainland China's internet culture do not understand what the word "沙发" (English:Sofa, Cantonese:梳化）means here.
“Occupying sofa” is a common behavior often in online forums trying to be the first to leave a comment or reply.
An interseting link to learn more about Chinese netizen's "occupying sofa" :
http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2012/03/friday-fun-netizens-occupy-obamas-sofa/
So usually how to reply "沙发“ in Mainland China ?
删除I agree with your opinion that the number of users of micro-blog is much bigger than that of blog, but we cannot deny that blog will disappear in several years, because some people are really conservative, they do not care about some new social media applications, but for youngsters,like you and me, we would prefer to use micro-blog.LOL
回复删除I agree with you that the blog will not fade away in several years, a friend of me still use blog to post his photos. But it seems that sina weibo is not very popular now because of wechat, it is not common for me to see friends post weibo now. Wechat has taken its place.
回复删除You are so careful about the development of sina bolg and weibo. It is no deny that weibo is so convenient that people could update their news and share their lives wherever they want.
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