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".

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.

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".

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.

Before 2021, Li Xiaomeng returned to Xinjiang early.

She comes from Kuitun, Yili, a small town with a population of 160,000. There is not much rain there, especially in winter. When chatting, Li Xiaomeng’s throat was dry, and he coughed lightly occasionally, but his tone remained flat all the time.

In mid-December, 2020, Li Xiaomeng needed a minor operation, and she decided to go back to the small town to recuperate. Her hometown, which she didn’t want to go back to, is now a place of peace of mind when she is vulnerable.

The elders in my hometown probably know that Li Xiaomeng, who graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law, could have become a beauty of law, but now he is playing games in Shanghai.

In Weibo’s comments, fans can always see the record of Li Xiaomeng, a passerby who doesn’t understand: "She is the first female champion in the world and the first champion in China."

This girl from a small town in Xinjiang has another well-known code name-liooon (lion sauce). In the circle of the card game Hearthstone, everyone called her "lion sauce".

Li Xiaomeng at work. Except for special marks, the pictures in this article are all from Weibo, Li Xiaomeng.

According to the Survey Report on Talent Salary of Game Industry in China in 2019, the proportion of male employees is 70.9%. On November 3, 2019, at the "Hearthstone Legend Masters Global Finals", the second that e-sports player Li Xiaomeng won the championship trophy surrounded by a group of male players became a historic 100%.

With the halo fading, opposition and preference are not really equal —— Behind the brilliant e-sports road of the "female champion" is the story of self-acceptance of Li Xiaomeng, a girl from a small town, amid doubts.

The following is her self-report.

On November 3, 2019, Li Xiaomeng won the championship in the Global Finals of Hearthstone Masters. Image source: Blizzard official website

"Even if I didn’t play games, I should find an opportunity to resist."

Our home is in Kuitun, Yili, a very small city.

In fact, in Xinjiang, most parents will tell their children that you should study hard, get into a good university and live in a developed city in the future. Therefore, at that time, everyone’s idea was not to stay there, and it seemed that people who were better and more capable would not come back.

Li Xiaomeng and his father as a child.

But my dad is different from other parents, and he just wants me to go back and inherit his job.

He told me about his arrangements for me. Let me graduate, pass the judicial exam, and then come back. He will buy me a car and work in his law firm. He’s in charge of everything anyway.

When I told my dad I didn’t want to come back, he said something to refute me, which seemed unreasonable to me. I still remember that he said, "Look at Beijing, Shanghai and new york. There are also many beggars in those places." He may want to express that big cities are not all good.

But my dad stayed in a small town all his life except for going to college in Xi ‘an, so every time he said how bad the big city was, in fact, I couldn’t be convinced.

Li Xiaomeng in the third grade.

I did well in the college entrance examination, but I chose my major at that time. In the end, we were still deadlocked. My father insisted that I choose law, but I want to study advertising myself. I have always liked advertisements. I can’t bear to change channels when I see good advertisements on TV.

My dad finally said, you can study what you want, but I won’t pay for your college education.

I’m just choosing my major carefully, not quitting college. How does he know that I will have no future if I choose another major? It’s boring, in this threatening way.

Originally, my parents had agreed to let my father pay for my college education. Before the college entrance examination, my mother got sick and had a brain tumor. Now my father says that he won’t pay for it. My mother analyzed it with me and said that she can also pay for my college education. However, after getting sick, the pressure on this matter became greater. So I finally chose the law major.

The financial pressure is really great sometimes, but I don’t think my father is right because of lack of money. Money is not the most important thing for me, although I am also a Taurus who loves money very much.

My dad is a very realistic person. He didn’t accept my choice to do what he likes at first, but now after seeing my achievements, he will feel that the present stage is not bad.

At the beginning of 2018, I decided to play professionally, and the competition coincided with the judicial examination. It’s impossible for me to prepare for the exam when I’m preparing for the game, so I called my dad and told him that I wouldn’t take the exam, but I didn’t dare to tell him that I was going to be a player, only that I found a game company to work.

My dad was so angry that he said he would take the judicial exam anyway, and told me to stop talking nonsense. I blacked him out because he kept bombing me on the phone.

At the end of 2019, the day after the finals ended, I flew back from the United States. As soon as I came back, my mother told me that my dad sent me messages everywhere and showed off that I won the championship in the work group.

But I don’t think he really approved of me.

I pulled him out of the blacklist long ago, but he didn’t call me a single time.

When my dad talks to others about my winning the championship, he will deliberately avoid the fact that he was opposed to my playing games before. Otherwise, he will lose money and can’t naturally show off to others, saying that this is my daughter, and she won a world champion in e-sports-to tell the truth, he is not qualified to be proud.

Before I played games, I almost never disobeyed my father.

But even if I didn’t play games, I should find an opportunity to resist.

"It’s not that I can accept these things in my heart, I just figured it out."

When I first started to participate in the competition, I felt that e-sports was based on strength. I thought that if I became more powerful one day and scored in the competition, I would be affirmed and paid attention by many people, even a little more attention than boys. At that time, I would have this naive idea.

It turned out that this was not the case. There are also a few people with poor quality, and they can feel the prejudice and malice of a large part of people towards girls.

For example, some people will be particularly unhappy if they lose to girls. When I first started playing professionally, I would take part in a small city Internet cafe competition. I was a college student in Chongqing at that time, and there was basically a game every week. When an opponent sees a girl coming, he will secretly rejoice and show it directly on his face, which is obvious. Their friends will also say to him, "Your hand is steady."

In fact, real professional players respect each other very much, and even give more preferential treatment to girls. If you win, your opponent will sincerely recognize you, and if you lose, you won’t laugh at your food. They all say it doesn’t matter and comfort you. However, professional players are, after all, the top part. To put it bluntly, people with poor level will be sexist.

When I won the finals-China only had two places a year, I won the first season championship in China, so I got one. At that time, there were many people who questioned me. Some people think that I won by luck, while others think that I am a girl, so I must not play well. When the previous champion was a boy, he was never questioned so much.

Including after I won the championship, many people said that I was lucky and Germany was not worthy. Some people have been touting the female champion, thinking that if I win the world championship, I will be amazing. In fact, I am just like other players.

Also, before I went to the game, it was broadcast live and I needed to show my face on stage. As soon as I appeared, the barrage was all about grading, appearance, figure and so on, and all kinds of comments were made.

In fact, all the girls are on the live broadcast, which is the case.

If you don’t look thin, you are a normal figure, and then you look fatter on camera, it’s called "micro-tan" If you were a little fatter, the barrage would always brush "fff". "F" means "Press F to enter the tank" in the game.

After graduation, I gained weight because I played this game. Because I have been playing games seriously, I don’t have much activity every day and I don’t eat very healthily. I also got grades, not white and fat.

After I became famous and more people knew me, more and more people called me fat, and my own fans told me to lose weight quickly. I can’t explain to others where I got my meat one by one. I can only pretend not to see it. These words are still quite hurtful-obviously they are all playing professional games, as if it is useless for me to play no matter how well I don’t lose weight.

The most unacceptable thing in my heart should be male players. Even in the male commentary, there are many fat people, much fatter than me, but no one talks about them or brushes tanks for them.

At first, I was not happy, and found that this circle was not as beautiful as I thought.

Later, I figured it out. Let them say whether they are fat or not. Otherwise, I have been entangled in this matter, which affects my training, and the game is easy to play badly. I always feel that people are staring at me.

It’s not that I can accept these things in my heart, I just figured it out.

"People who really love me will definitely consider my feelings."

Hearthstone is a game that I came into contact with quite early. I played it just after my sophomore year. It was introduced to me by the first boyfriend I talked to after I went to college. He was playing, so I got the next one.

At first we were all ordinary players. Later, the game attracted me more and more, and I slowly became more involved. He often said something to hit me and asked me why I spent so much time on the game. Anyway, girls couldn’t play well.

He never considers my feelings, and he likes to comment on girls, thinking that I am fat and have thick legs. I obviously can’t stand him, but some of what he said at that time would make me think there was something wrong with me.

I always told myself that it was troublesome to break up, and I would meet someone again in the future, and everything I experienced would have to be done again.

We have been together for more than two years, and we broke up three times, all of which I mentioned. Usually, when he goes to play games or goes out with friends, he doesn’t always surround me and doesn’t care much about me. But as soon as I broke up with him, he kept me crazy. There will be phone bombing. When I hang up his phone, he will call me on my roommate’s cell phone.

I still remember when we broke up for the first time, he told me that he had regarded me as family, so sometimes he didn’t pay so much attention to some details. I can’t believe I believed it then.

He was fine for the first two weeks after getting back together, and then he slowly returned to his previous appearance. I feel a little stuck.

Later, I made up my mind to completely separate from him because he didn’t care much about this kind of thing before, and I still thought it could be changed, but the differences in three views could not be made up. The longer we spend together, the more we talk about things in the future, the more we feel very different from him. Even I found out later that he is quite similar to my father in some places.

At that time, I thought that love was like this, until I met Brother Feng, my coach and my current boyfriend, and found that love can be a very happy thing.

His real name is Fan Yilun, and his circle name is "Follow the Wind". Now he is a signing player of the Hearthstone Branch of iG Club. We didn’t have any achievements when we met, but he is quite famous in the player circle, because he is very enthusiastic and likes to help others analyze the deck. The Jianghu people call him "Wind Coach". I went to him and wanted him to help me guide me. Later, I had feelings and naturally got together.

Li Xiaomeng and her boyfriend Fan Yilun. Both of them were eliminated from the tour in 2020, and the lion sauce quipped: "What a coincidence, are you cold?"

He is really a serious person. I will feel respected when I stay with him. Because some people will treat me slightly differently, and because I am a girl, I will lower my standards when teaching me to play games. But he won’t. He just regards me as an ordinary player who wants to improve his level. This is what I want.

I get nervous easily. Hearthstone, a card game, will be random. I’m always worried about drawing an unfavorable card. Later, Brother Feng told me that I just had to do what I had to do. If I lost because of drawing cards, he would write an analysis post on the forum to help me explain that I didn’t lose because of my poor level.

I seldom laugh and cry, but when I face my boyfriend, I will show my fragile side. He is not very good at comforting people, but he will listen to me quietly and stay with me. There are some things he hasn’t experienced, so it’s impossible to feel the same way. I just need him to listen.

If these experiences have taught me anything, it is that people who really love me will definitely consider my feelings.

Whether I am a champion or not, he believes me unconditionally, which is enough.

　 　 　 　 　 Six counties in Northern Ireland remained in Britain because of years of immigration, when Protestants accounted for the majority of the population in Northern Ireland. Protestants don’t want to leave England, so they are also called royalists or unionists; Indigenous Catholics, on the other hand, hope to be unified with the south, so they are also called Republicans or nationalists. The conflict between the two factions has been constant, but it has not reached the point of white-hot later. Although defense diplomacy is still dominated by London, the Northern Ireland House is still relatively autonomous. For decades, the Northern Ireland House has been controlled by The Ulster Unionist Party——UUP), which marginalized Catholics from employment, education, medical care and health care. Catholics are discriminated second-class citizens.

　　　　　　　　Where there is oppression, there is resistance. The civil rights movement that began in the United States in the 1960s spread to Northern Ireland, and Northern Ireland Catholics took to the streets to demand more political rights, social supply and cultural recognition, but these were resisted by Protestants. In October 1968, the demonstrations demanding civil rights quickly turned into violent conflicts, and the police controlled by royalists were extremely heavy, and various contradictions also intensified rapidly. The royalists and Republicans were at loggerheads. This is the beginning of the "Troubles" defined in the history books.

Confrontation: 3,600 British troops were killed and 50,000 wounded.

　　　　　　　　Seeing that the Irish Parliament could not control the situation, the London government sent troops to Northern Ireland to maintain order in 1969. Although the British army set foot on the land of Northern Ireland, most ordinary people could accept it, but a small number of extreme Republicans were quite disgusted. The civil rights demand that should have been reformed within Northern Ireland quickly rose to the movement of separation from Britain and reunification with the south. In the same year, some extremists in the Irish Republican Army separated and established the Provisional Irish Republican Army, which is also known as IRA. They began to directly attack the British army and announced that they would carry out a "protracted war" against Britain and the royalists.

　 　 　 　 　 The British government took a tough approach to IRA at first. In 1971, they announced internment’s policy that they could be detained without trial, and more than 2,000 people were arrested. On January 30, 1972, 10,000 people staged a demonstration demanding civil rights in Delhi, London, Northern Ireland. The procession clashed with British troops maintaining order, and soldiers shot and killed 13 people and injured 13 others. This was "Bloody Sunday". The hatred of all parties intensified, and the London government decided to cancel the completely paralyzed Northern Ireland House, take the management power back to the central government in an all-round way, and set up a full-time Secretary-General for Northern Ireland to manage it.

　　　　　　　　Instead of killing IRA, the British government’s tough measures made it stronger and more morale. Young Catholics actively participated in IRA. They were financially supported by Irish immigrants from the United States, with better weapons and more professional means. Car bombs and plastic bombs were used, and shooting was more common, and the death toll soared.

　　　　　　　　For example, in July 1972 alone, there were nineteen explosions in Belfast. IRA has also extended its military activities originally limited to Northern Ireland to Britain and Europe, making people in Britain fearful. To give a few examples, in February 1972, the Aldershot bombing in Britain killed seven people. In September 1973, London’s King’s Cross and Euston railway stations were bombed, and 21 people were injured; In February 1974, a bus exploded on the expressway, killing 12 people; In June 1974, the British House of Representatives exploded, causing extensive damage to the House building and injuring eleven people. In October 1974, Guildford Bar exploded, killing five people and injuring 44 others. In November, 1974, the Birmingham Bar exploded, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others.

　　　　　　　　When people talk about the conflict in Northern Ireland, they always think that IRA is the culprit, but it is not entirely true. Royalists are not soft either. They have set up armed forces one after another, such as UDA(Ulster Defence Association) and UFF(Ulster Freedom Fighter), which were established in September 1971. They imported guns and ammunition from South Africa, attacked Catholic residential areas and bombed bars and public places where Catholics gathered, in the same way as IRA.

　　　　　　　　Therefore, the 30-year "Troubles" in Northern Ireland was a civil war between Republicans and royalists. The police and British troops tried to maintain peace in the war, and sometimes they went off accidentally, hurting innocent people. Republicans also accused the police of conspiring with British troops and royalists’ armed groups. Hatred is growing, society is more isolated, and the economy is paralyzed.