Have social networks brought us closer? No, it makes communication more restrained.

In the era of information explosion, when you wake up, it’s terrible that the full screen of little red dot always makes your heart scratch the wall. The inner os of patients with deep social fear: "three days visible" is a kind of interruption, it is best to be a "network vacuum person", or goodbye completely, social network.

When social media has quietly become an indispensable part of daily life, modern people are also surrendering their own data unnoticed. Nowadays, businesses that undertake the disappearance or tracking of the Internet have also emerged.People have to think about how to be wary of using their social accounts, or whether to simply escape.

"Connecting" is the tenet of Facebook. "Connecting people’s social vision is my top priority." Zuckerberg said before the hearing in April. At that time, tens of millions of Facebook users found that their private data had been leaked to Cambridge Analytica.

Studies have found that through close self-exposure, people become closer to each other. have onlyPeople have no privacy concerns about using these platforms in depth, and social media can make interpersonal communication so close.Paradoxically, these tools were created to keep people acquainted at a certain distance.

Julie Beck, senior deputy editor of Atlantic Monthly, recently conducted a study to try toVerify how much people look at themselves when using social media, and whether Cambridge analyzes whether corporate scandals have affected their use of Facebook and other platforms.Beck also shared the data with Sauvik Das, associate professor of interactive computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Sarita Schoenebeck, director of Living Online Laboratory at the University of Michigan. They also made some basic analysis of some data.

Of course, this survey is not rigorous. Atlantic Monthly sends the survey to readers through Facebook, Twitter, subscription mail and membership projects, so it is not a demographic sampling. Among the 2218 respondents, 82% are white, and most of them are from the United States; Women account for 59%, men for 40%, and 1% of other genders; Respondents are also distributed in a wide range of age groups, but generally tend to be older groups.

The survey results show what people are willing/unwilling to share on social media, the degree of trust in different platforms, and how privacy issues affect user behavior. In addition, Beck also followed up with some readers to learn their detailed views on social media privacy issues.

Overall, 78.8% of the respondents indicated that they were "very" or "somewhat" worried about their information privacy on social media; 82.2% said they would conduct self-censorship on social media. Das analysis mentioned that older people are more likely to conduct self-censorship because of privacy concerns than younger people, but for all age groups, the proportion is 75% or more. In this survey,"Self-censorship" is defined as "users will prevent themselves from publishing content they want to share for fear of privacy disclosure".

▲ Respondents’ concerns about the privacy of social media information

▲ Respondents conduct self-censorship when using social media.

David Garvey, a 27-year-old sales executive working in Boston, began to pay attention to self-censorship before Cambridge Analytica broke out. The reason is that David once posted a photo of drinking in high school on Facebook, and his friend’s mother complained to the principal after seeing it.

"Through that,I realized that anything posted on social media would be watched by others at any time."Garvey said," so I hardly send anything.Anything sent out may be publicly consumed.I try to avoid this situation,Keep your social life in intimate circles.Garvey said that he was not really worried about privacy on social media because he was careful enough about what he posted.

Among the respondents,Facebook is currently the most used but least trusted social network.57.9% of platform users said that they "almost don’t trust" Facebook or "don’t trust" Facebook’s protection of personal information privacy. Respondents have different attitudes towards other platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest and Snapchat. Most of them are neutral or uncertain, and Facebook’s Instagram has a higher degree of trust. Several interviewees said that they know that Instagram belongs to Facebook, but they feel that most of the pictures shared on Instagram are not so easy to be used.

▲ Trust survey of major social media platforms

A Facebook spokesperson mentioned to Beck in an email that,In the past few months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out in March, the company did not find any significant impact on user behavior."What we have seen is that people are more concerned about data privacy and understand their control and choice." In order to let users better "control" the privacy of their accounts, Facebook provides more concise privacy settings, and plans to develop a "history cleaning" function, so that users can delete data collected from external resources of Facebook.

However, some people began to think about how to use or whether to use Facebook after analyzing the company incident in Cambridge. In Beck’s survey, 99% of the respondents said they knew about the incident. Such a high proportion is certainly not unusual. After all, the survey was mainly aimed at readers of Atlantic Monthly, which paid close attention to this scandal. Among them,41.9% of people said that they changed their behavior of using Facebook because they knew this news, mainly because they were more careful about what they posted.But Das reminded,"When it comes to privacy, people often say one thing and do another."

A small number of voices (9.6%) said that they deleted or frozen their Facebook accounts after the scandal broke out.After the Cambridge Analytica incident, Facebook refused to provide the average number of accounts that people freeze or delete every month.

Janice Riggs, a blogger in Chicago, deleted her Facebook account after hearing about the incident. "It’s just one thing I can get rid of in my life," she said. "I don’t use Facebook and I don’t believe it, so I just closed my account, and so did my husband. But I also know people who say that they will not really completely abandon Facebook. " In addition, Riggs also mentioned that it is still very troublesome to figure out how to delete Facebook account, and she finally searched a lot of operation guides on Google.

A small percentage (25.6%) said that theyAfter analyzing the company events in Cambridge, I changed my usage behavior on other social media platforms, mainly by becoming more careful, sending less things or changing privacy settings.

In addition to Cambridge’s analysis of the impact of corporate events, on the whole,Respondents said that the content they posted on social media was not as personal as it was five years ago.A total of 60% people said that the content they posted was "very impersonal" or "relatively impersonal", but 25.7% people remained the same.

In 2016, The Information reported that, at least on Facebook, original personal sharing (compared with emoticons or links) is decreasing. API)2015 survey by the American Journalism Institute (API) found that millennials pay more attention to privacy issues than in the past.

"I think people are increasingly accepting that social media is a part of life." Das said. This is also reflected in himself. Das found himself sharing work updates or major personal events on Facebook. "In the past, I only posted irrelevant content."

As the freshness of social media has passed and its practicality has become stronger, perhaps people will realize more and more that private information is the price paid when using social media. Of course, some people don’t care about it.

"If Facebook wants to extract my data to improve the whole algorithm, just do it." Garvey said, "I think this will bring net benefits to society. These data are valuable, and more constructive insights can be found from them, not harmful. "

"mark zuckerberg is a genius of Facebook," said Shirley O’Key, a 98-year-old retired teacher living in California. "He has admirable goals, and he wants to provide communication channels for the world. I have great confidence in his sincerity in doing these things. Of course, he was also blocked, because everyone said he didn’t protect his privacy. However, we should realize that nothing in the world is private. "

Maybe people are not ignorant, just confused for a while. Beck’s colleague Alexis Madrigal pointed out that,The development of Facebook will not be hindered. It has grown and is very important to the lives of too many people. No negative news can really affect it.Facebook is unique, at least in terms of necessity. In Beck’s survey, most Facebook users (68.6%) said that without Facebook, their social life would be "a little", "average" and "great". For other social media platforms, most people’s attitude is that social life without it will "not suffer at all".

▲ "Without this platform, how much will your social life suffer?"

Regina Goodrich, a 26-year-old retail worker in Florida, said that she had frozen her Facebook account about five times in the past five years, but she couldn’t help but use it again. "I’m probably too afraid to miss something." Goodrich said. But recently, she completely deleted her account.It’s not because of Cambridge Analytica’s scandal, but because Facebook makes her feel too anxious. However, "privacy concerns are also one of the reasons."

However, in this survey, most people still reflect that they will not change their behavior of using social media because of this scandal.

Taylor Moore, a 22-year-old digital marketer in Chicago, said that Facebook is her "main social network" and she uses Facebook Messenger more than SMS. "If I have to delete some apps, deleting Facebook will definitely cause heavy losses." For Cambridge Analytica, Moore thought it was more like a "violation", and she didn’t change her usage habits because of it.

"The Cambridge Analytica incident is not the first time Facebook has fallen into a privacy storm." Schoenebeck said, "This kind of news has been breaking out for ten years. Every time we meet, people seem to think,’ This time it’s true, we must stay away from Facebook’. But then people forgot about it. Facebook is almost like a public tool, because people, especially adults, feel that they have to use it.So I don’t think people will associate using Facebook with trusting it.After all, many institutions and organizations are using it, such as workplaces, schools, community centers, churches, etc. People will miss many things if they don’t use it. "

Although the invasion of privacy will cause some people to completely quit some platforms, from a macro perspective, the dominant position of social media will not be shaken."It seems impossible to stop using the existing platform and return to the traditional social ways in the past." Das said, "We can’t stop using social media because they have completely changed the way we socialize, at least in this country."

On the contrary, if we continue to rely on social media to maintain relationships, then privacy violations that damage trust may lead to chilling effect. People will not give up social media, but they will use it more quietly, carefully and less personally. Social media is not a good tool for real connections.

The largest duty-free shop in downtown Shanghai is very popular, so you must enter with an appointment ticket from tomorrow.

At 10: 30 am on August 8, at the entrance of Zhongfu Shanghai Duty Free Shop, a large number of customers lined up to shop in the store. The Paper reporter Zang Mingtu

Customers with self-service customs clearance can’t shop, the price advantage is questioned, and the queue order at the checkout counter is not ideal … Despite all kinds of complaints, the popularity of Zhongfu Shanghai Duty Free Shop (hereinafter referred to as "Duty Free Shop"), which started trial operation at 10 am on August 8, is bursting.

The largest duty-free shop in downtown Shanghai is located at 889 Square, yueda, Caojiadu, Jing ‘an District. Before 10 o’clock, there was a long queue of nearly 200 people at the entrance of the duty-free shop. When the door opens at 10 o’clock, after the first batch of customers enter the store, the store will start to restrict the flow, and a group of customers will enter the store about every 15 minutes.

On the afternoon of the same day, the person in charge of yueda 889 Square told the reporter of The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that customers must enter the duty-free shop with an appointment ticket tomorrow. There are more than 1000 reservation tickets for tomorrow, which were distributed at 14: 00 on the same day. Customers who don’t have an appointment voucher can get an appointment voucher the day after tomorrow at the duty-free shop.

Self-service customs clearance customers cannot check out.

According to the on-site reminder, the shopping objects in duty-free foreign exchange goods are China tourists with passports, including diplomats, returned overseas students, foreign aid workers, laborers, ocean-going crew members and public servants with official passports in diplomatic institutions. Passengers of China nationality who have reached the age of 16 and entered the country with their passports can buy duty-free foreign exchange goods within the limited value set by the customs at the duty-free shop within 180 days from the date of entry.

On August 8, at the service desk in the duty-free shop, the staff verified the customer’s passport and issued the shopping identification card to the customer after passing the inspection. The Paper reporter Zang Mingtu

Shopping identification cards issued by duty-free shops to customers. The Paper reporter Zang Mingtu

When shopping in duty-free shops, you must first go to the service desk for examination with your passport and other documents and get a shopping identification card. The on-site staff reminded customers that even if they didn’t shop on the same day, they used up the "one-time" opportunity in "one-time purchase of duty-free goods within the limits set by the customs with passports within 180 days from the date of entry", that is, they could not come to buy again.

Duty-free shops require passports to have entry stamps, which makes many self-service customs clearance customers lose "one-time" shopping opportunities.

Recently, the border inspection department has fully realized self-service customs clearance at terminals T1 and T2 of Shanghai Pudong Airport. Inbound passengers with China electronic passports and Hong Kong and Macao residents’ passes to and from the Mainland can complete the self-service customs clearance procedures within 12 seconds. Since there is almost no need to queue up, self-service customs clearance at entry has become the first choice for passengers with China electronic passports to return to China recently. Because of the self-service customs clearance, these passengers have no entry stamps on their passports.

On August 8th, a reporter from The Paper saw in the duty-free shop that many customers were stuck in front of the checkout counter because their passports didn’t have entry stamps, so they couldn’t check out and pick up the goods.

"Since the passport for self-service customs clearance cannot be purchased (duty-free shop goods), why did you pass the inspection with the same passport at the beginning? So I missed the shopping opportunity of duty-free shops. What should I do? " A customer questioned.

In the face of similar dissatisfaction from many customers, the cashier staff still insisted: "Shopping must have an oval entry stamp with China border inspection cover, but we can’t use electronic stamps here.When you (the customer) return to China next time, ask the border inspector to put a stamp on the electronic sign. "

In this regard, some customers spit out: "It was originally Bali who traveled back to China to replenish some goods, queued for half an hour to enter the store, queued for passport inspection, selected goods, came to the cashier, and the cash register was down, and the queue arrived, only to say that the passport for self-service customs clearance could not be purchased, and also said that it was not common to go abroad."

Some customers said: "Although there is no entry stamp for entry self-service customs clearance, I have an exit stamp, which is within 180 days, and I am standing here now. Can’t I prove that I have entered the country?"

The Paper reporter noticed that some customers are ready to "rub" other people’s passports for shopping after selecting goods. For such "private cooperation", duty-free shop staff did not interfere.

Except for many customers who can’t pay for self-service customs clearance, the cash register on the second floor of the duty-free shop was down for a time, which led to the longer and longer queue of customers paying bills. Moreover, due to the circular structure of the duty-free shop cashier, many later customers could not find the end of the queue. The on-site staff reminded customers to queue orderly, but when customers asked where the end of the queue was, the staff also said that they didn’t know.

Some purchasing behaviors have legal risks.

The Paper reporter noticed that some customers took pictures of goods in duty-free shops and started a "purchasing".

In this regard, Ge Zhihao, a lawyer of Beijing Guantao (Shanghai) Law Firm, said that the duty-free shops opened in urban areas are not "completely and unconditionally open" to domestic citizens, but are accompanied by preconditions, including the purpose of the goods purchased by consumers here and the total value of the goods purchased.

According to the law, the purpose of setting up duty-free shops is to take care of the reasonable needs of individuals to import goods for their own use, and then to exempt consumers from customs duties, value-added tax, consumption tax, etc. The starting point is to make it clear that the ultimate purpose of goods purchased by individuals is not to put them in circulation. Secondly, the customs also clearly stipulates the amount of personal tax exemption, mainly based on the announcement of the General Administration of Customs (No.54, 2010) that goods for personal use, except tobacco products, alcoholic products and 20 kinds of goods that should be taxed by the state, can enjoy tax exemption within a total value of 5,000 yuan.

Ge Zhihao believes that "personal purchasing" should be treated differently in three situations. First, purchasing is essentially a personal consumption, and then the goods are donated, so under the premise that the total value of the purchased goods does not exceed the limit, this behavior is legal. Secondly, assuming that the ultimate goal of purchasing is to seek economic benefits by reselling related goods in the name of personal consumption, it is essentially a sales behavior, obviously not the "convenience" object of tax exemption policy, but should be regulated by relevant tax laws in China. Third, the so-called "purchasing" means personal consumption under the guise of someone else’s passport, so because the actual consumers themselves do not have the qualification to enjoy the exemption policy, their consumption behavior is suspected of tax evasion.

In addition, according to the relevant provisions of the criminal law, if an individual fails to declare a large amount of tax payment by deception or concealment, accounting for more than 10% of the taxable amount, he will also be suspected of tax evasion. Therefore, some "personal purchasing" behaviors have great legal risks.

You must enter the store with an appointment ticket tomorrow.

On August 8, some customers suggested that the goods in duty-free shops were not cheap.

For example, a customer told the The Paper reporter that the price of a suit of a certain brand of cosmetics in the duty-free shop is 698 yuan. "This price, don’t compare with the origin of the United States, it has no price advantage over Hong Kong." Another customer said that taking a backpack of a certain brand as an example, the price of duty-free shops exceeds that of 1000 yuan, and a shopping mall in Jing ‘an Temple nearby is on sale. The discounted price of backpacks is around 600 yuan. "Of course, it is not exactly the same style, but the style is similar."

Regarding the price advantage of duty-free shops, the shop assistant said that cosmetics are about 30% cheaper than counters in Shanghai; Compared with the duty-free shops in Pudong Airport, some goods are expensive and some are cheap.

In addition, some customers told The Paper that there is milk powder on the second floor of the duty-free shop, which is much cheaper than the market price, but the brand is single. Take a section of milk powder as an example. The price of duty-free shop is 280 yuan, and the market price is 346 yuan. For the single brand of milk powder, the salesperson said that because the quality of milk powder of this brand is better. However, many customers told The Paper that the baby at home is not drinking this brand of milk powder, and they are not going to change the milk powder for the baby, so they are not going to buy it.

On the first day of opening, the largest duty-free shop in downtown Shanghai was full of popularity, despite the fact that customers with self-service customs clearance could not shop, the queuing order at the checkout counter was not ideal, and the price advantage was questioned by customers.

The person in charge of yueda 889 Square, where the duty-free shop is located, told the The Paper that a large number of customers lined up outside the duty-free shop on the first day of opening.Customers must enter the duty-free shop with an appointment voucher tomorrow. Reservation tickets were issued from 12: 00 on the same day and were issued at 14: 00, with more than 1,000 tickets issued. Customers who don’t have an appointment voucher can get an appointment voucher the day after tomorrow at the duty-free shop.

Patriotic health campaign develops vigorously, and the penetration rate of tap water in rural areas reaches 84%

  CCTV News:This year marks the 70th anniversary of the patriotic health campaign. At the recent National Patriotic Health Campaign Conference, the relevant person in charge of the National Patriotic Health Office said that the patriotic health campaign needs to be more targeted in the face of the new situation and new tasks of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19.

  Over the past 70 years, China’s patriotic health movement has flourished. According to the statistics of relevant departments, the penetration rate of sanitary toilets in rural areas has exceeded 73%, the harmless treatment rate of urban domestic garbage has exceeded 99%, and the penetration rate of tap water in rural areas has reached 84%. The average number of excellent days of air quality in 339 cities above prefecture level accounted for 87%, and various environmental health indicators improved significantly.

  At present, the prevention and control of epidemic situation in COVID-19 is facing new situation and new tasks, so it is necessary to carry out patriotic health campaign more pertinently to effectively protect people’s life safety and health.