I am thirty-eight years old, married and live in Chang Ning district of Shanghai.

 

In the past, I met some online friend. They now have already become my good offline friends. Relatively speaking, I have slowly begun to ignore the social nature of Douban, because the time cost of posting and replying is too high for me. I don’t see much on the Douban account. The use of this type of geographic tagging for me now is to look more at some official events. For example, some information about the exhibition information offline. Now my own social needs are relatively low, but I will observe in it, which is quite interesting (This informant's job includes some observation tasks.). I don't take the initiative to contact people in the group. 

 

I live in a new neighborhood offline, and the relationship between everyone is relatively indifferent. Except for some tenants, others are middle-aged and elderly people who buy houses to live in by themselves. Relatively speaking, the age gap between me and them is quite large. Many of them are retired in their 50s. So, there is not much interaction between us. There are relatively few young people in the neighborhood, so the neighbors just say hello and there is no more interaction, but the atmosphere is still relatively friendly.

 

So I feel that elderly people are not so dependent on the Internet. These people, such as taking care of grandchildren, will have more offline contacts, and they will be more active offline. This makes you feel the reality of life. In my personal perception, I think that social networking is not very helpful in helping people really get rid of loneliness. In fact, after you finish socializing online, you will feel more empty. Because you didn't get anything substantial after completing this kind of social interactions. What people need must be face to face. But I think like the Shanghai group, everyone will have more direct and unceremonious emotional collisions. Everyone treats social interactions online will be more direct. Unlike offline, it is more relaxed, or pretending friendly.