Quick Overview First Oddity: Negative news spreads fast Second Oddity: Miracle products sold everywhere Third Oddity: Friends' identities unclear Fourth Oddity: Many merchants pretend to be honest Fifth Oddity: Various chicken soup posts are indestructible Sixth Oddity: Secret recipes constantly shown off Seventh Oddity: Beauty avatars everywhere Eighth Oddity: Manufacturers and distributors show off their relationship

Introduction In fact, some so-called 'chicken soup' may be nothing more than the casual remarks of 'experts,' yet ordinary people treat them as 'bibles,' which can be harmful without the victims even realizing it. Since using WeChat, it seems inseparable from 'Moments.' Posting various content in Moments has become a habit for many WeChat users. As the author has nearly 3,000 friends in Moments, I often get to see the various content they post. Thus, I have summarized some of the more 'odd' phenomena in Moments, with no ill intent, merely for amusement.

First Oddity: Negative news spreads fast In Moments, there is a rather interesting phenomenon: 'negative news' spreads extremely fast, much faster than 'positive news.' For example, news related to my industry about 'H7N9,' closures of live poultry markets, or even people infected with H7N9, spreads very quickly. On the other hand, 'positive news' that refutes these 'negative reports' also spreads, but not as fast. People seem to be very willing to spread 'unverified' 'negative news.' I remember on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year last year, I went to Macau with an employee from a Shandong pharmaceutical company. At that time, the female tour guide in Macau, in order to promote so-called 'health products,' confidently claimed that 'mainland food is unsafe.' I couldn't stand it and refuted her, but she opened her phone and showed me a video saved in her WeChat Moments from a Shandong TV station about the so-called 'fast-growing chickens.' It was truly speechless.

Second Oddity: Miracle products sold everywhere Nowadays, WeChat's 'Moments' seems more like a 'business circle.' Various merchants sell all kinds of products to their 'friends.' The most common are products labeled as 'miracle' or 'special effect,' especially health products and cosmetics, such as miracle weight-loss products, even health products that 'cure all diseases,' face masks that whiten instantly, cosmetics with immediate effects, etc. They are everywhere, even claiming to be imported, true or false, hard to distinguish.

Third Oddity: Friends' identities unclear In theory, since it's called 'Moments,' one should at least have a basic understanding of the friends added, or when adding others, one should introduce oneself so the other party can have a preliminary understanding. This should be basic common sense, but the reality is far from it. I encounter people requesting to add me as a friend almost every day. A considerable number of them do not use their real photos or names as avatars, and some even have strange names like 'A River of Water,' 'A Dream Behind the Curtain,' 'Mouse Carrying a Knife,' etc. Their locations are either 'Andorra,' 'Hokkaido,' or even 'African Continent.' If asked who they are, they are evasive and never tell you. Is this adding friends or 'going undercover'? The motives of these so-called 'friends' are highly suspicious.

Fourth Oddity: Many merchants pretend to be honest A very strange phenomenon in Moments is that 'merchants' constantly show their 'real transactions' to make people feel they are 'very honest.' First, they constantly share screenshots of WeChat chats with buyers; second, they show piles of goods sent by logistics; third, they display daily 'transaction records' and even videos of counting money; fourth, they show various 'usage effects'... In short, through various videos, images, and words, they continuously express that everything they promote is 'real' and supported by evidence, thus telling you they are very 'honest.'

Fifth Oddity: Various chicken soup posts are indestructible In Moments, there are numerous 'chicken soup' posts that many friends favor. These are constantly shared around. Few care whether these 'chicken soup' posts are truly 'nutritious' or 'beneficial.' Things like 'Ma Yun said,' 'Li Ka-shing said,' 'Warren Buffett said,' 'Bill Gates said'... These sayings attributed to various 'experts' are half true and half false, and almost no one analyzes whether they are useful or beneficial to ordinary people. 'Anyway, these experts can't be wrong; otherwise, how could they become experts?' In fact, some so-called 'chicken soup' may be nothing more than the casual remarks of 'experts,' yet ordinary people treat them as 'bibles,' which can be harmful without the victims even realizing it.

Sixth Oddity: Secret recipes constantly shown off Showing off various 'secret recipes' in Moments is another odd phenomenon. Things like 'Cancer doesn't need treatment,' 'The secret to longevity,' 'The thousand-gold secret recipe from Director XX of a certain hospital,' 'Secrets doctors don't tell you,' 'A small recipe to cure sinusitis,' 'A recipe not sold for a thousand gold,' are countless. Which are true and which are false, almost no one knows. It is possible that some are genuine, but just from the wording, if it's a 'secret recipe,' how do others know it? If it's 'not sold for a thousand gold,' why is it freely publicized? So, those so-called 'secret recipes' are indeed questionable.

Seventh Oddity: Beauty avatars everywhere A very interesting phenomenon in Moments is that among friends' avatars, there are more women than men, and those who do not use their real names almost all use female avatars, and they are always 'beauties,' which is very pleasing to the eye. Of course, some men specifically add 'beauties' as friends... But who knows if these 'beauties' are real or fake?

Eighth Oddity: Manufacturers and distributors show off their relationship Various interactions between manufacturers and distributors with business dealings are also a major phenomenon in Moments. Typically, they share meetings, product promotions, corporate celebrations, etc. Some business personnel constantly forward 'good' news about cooperative clients or 'target clients,' even helping to forward 'product' information. On the surface, the relationship between manufacturers and distributors seems 'excellent,' and between business personnel and clients, it seems 'harmonious.'

In fact, there is much to explore and ponder in 'Moments,' but this article will not delve further. Perhaps the author is just 'bored' and teasing; readers should not take it personally. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

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