I am thirty years old. I just finished my PhD and work in Jiao Tong University as a researcher. I live in a small apartment which is located in Min Hang district of Shang Hai (far from the main city area). 

 

I added in this online neighborhood last November. I could say I don't have any offline neighborhood. Except the cleaner, nobody has interaction with me near my home. The room, you know, in Shang Hai, they are separated. People won't know each other even they share one big apartment. 

 

Now the online is the main way for me to make new friend, especially the Douban group. （When I asked him if he had added another city groups, he said that he had forgotten which group I belonged to (laugh). He has so many city group such as "Shanghai Douban", "Shanghai Group", "Live house in Shanghai", "Shanghai Returnees", etc.）

 

I'm working in the system. Therefore, in front of colleagues, it is not too good to express yourself too much. You need to maintain your character setting. For example, if you go to clubs, you will ask in the city group if there are any friends who are willing to go with you. You will never go to club with colleagues. I usually reply some interesting investments in the group and ignore some boring ones. Such as I met a girl in that group. She wanted us to have dinner without speaking a word. It is interesting.

 

I hope that the relationship within a neighborhood is reciprocal. I think that emotional connection is more important. When there is emotional connection, everyone will help each other. But if it is online, emotional connection may not be needed. I don't want to find emotional connections online. It is troublesome to have emotional connections with netizens.

I don't need netizens to be my friends. Online friends do not need you to maintain this emotional relationship, but offline may need you to maintain it. I don’t worry about losing a netizen online, because there are so many people. If you lose this person, you can change to another, because everyone has never seen each other. There is no big difference between them. This (Shanghai group) is very big, you can find someone to accompany you when you want to do something. It's a feeling that each takes what he needs. Because everyone is too busy.