Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

"Is Xu Xing's cell phone infected with some virus?"

On the morning of October 8, Xu Jian was having breakfast at home and looking through text messages on his phone, only to realize that Xu Xing had sent him a strange piece of content yesterday.

[Your contact sincerely invites you to join the big family of WeChat Assistant and have fun communicating with you on WeChat. Come and become his WeChat friend~Link: xxxxxxx]

"What the hell?" Sun Wanhui, who was drinking porridge opposite, raised her head and asked with a puzzled expression.

"Check if you have it on your phone." Xu Jian said while showing the text messages on his phone to Sun Wanhui.

After taking a look, Sun Wanhui took out her mobile phone and found exactly the same text message.

So Sun Wanhui simply called her directly, and the call was answered after a while.

"Hello?"

"Xu Xing, is there something wrong with your phone?" Sun Wanhui said.

"Ah?" Xu Xing on the other side looked confused, "What's the problem?"

"I saw that you sent me a strange text message yesterday. Your dad also received the exact same text message. You want us to download some software. Is it a virus?"

Xu Xing: "..."

"It's not a virus. Just download one and you'll know." Xu Xing said helplessly, "I'm going to class. After you download and register, you can chat with me directly on it. Just hang up here."

Xu Jian opposite saw her hanging up the phone and couldn't help but ask: "What's going on?"

"He asked us to download one. It's not a virus." Sun Wanhui said, her finger had already clicked on the text message again, and she tentatively downloaded a WeChat assistant.

After a while, the download of WeChat Assistant was completed.

Xu Jian said: "Then you try it first. If there is a virus, I won't do it."

"Don't worry." Sun Wanhui clicked on WeChat Assistant and followed the instructions to register her account. As soon as the registration was completed, she already had a friend on her WeChat account, Xu Xing, who sent her an invitation text message.

Looking at the chat list in front of her, Sun Wanhui clicked on Xu Xing's chat box and muttered: "Isn't this just QQ?"

[Sun Wanhui]: Where are the people? Can they receive it?

[Xu Xing]: Received, received, where is dad’s?

[Sun Wanhui]: Why don’t you use QQ? You even downloaded something like this because it feels less convenient than QQ.

[Xu Xing]: Let dad download one first.

[Sun Wanhui]: Got it, just go to class.

Sun Wanhui is a person who keeps up with the trend. Although she doesn't know much about computers, she is very good at playing on mobile phones. She also bought the Pineapple phone early, so she is also very proficient in using QQ on her mobile phone. She doesn't think this WeChat assistant has any substitute significance.

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But at Sun Wanhui's prompt, Xu Jian also downloaded a WeChat assistant. After registering, he added Sun Wanhui's friends and tried WeChat.

[Xu Jian]: Just typing is enough, right?

[Sun Wanhui]: Yes, it’s the same as QQ.

[Sun Wanhui]: You can also send a message to Xu Xing, and he can also see it there.

[Xu Jian]: Isn’t it the same one given to you? Don’t disturb his class.

[Xu Jian]: It feels a bit interesting.

[Sun Wanhui]: What does this mean? QQ is much easier to use than this.

"QQ is too complicated to use." Seeing this, Xu Jian on the opposite side shook his head repeatedly, "Look, I don't usually use QQ very much. I only use phone calls and text messages. This WeChat assistant looks much simpler."

"That's because you are stupid. You can't even understand QQ." Sun Wanhui curled her lips.

"That's what you said." Xu Jian was a little speechless, "Well, QQ has so many functions, how can I have time to study them, and to add a friend, you have to register a QQ number. Who do your family members usually use QQ to contact?"

"I think the function of WeChat Assistant is quite good. You can directly add friends to people in your phone's address book."

"Let me take a look, oh Xiao, take a look, you can also send invitation text messages to the people you contact on your mobile phone. Did you send it to someone to download and register, and I will be automatically added as a friend?"

"Xu Xing was like this just now, right? I think he was added as a friend directly without having to enter his account number."

Xu Jian clicked on the page on WeChat Assistant a few times. The [Conversation] page was very simple. Currently, there were only dialog boxes for Xu Xing and Sun Wanhui.

After clicking [Contact Book], only two friends are displayed, and there is an [Add Friend] option at the top.

Once you click in, there will be an [Add Mobile Contact] button, which allows you to invite individually, send to a group with one click, or even select a specific group of people for selective group sending, which is very convenient.

Xu Jian also sent invitations to relatives and friends in his address book, then exited and clicked other buttons.

He was not interested in games. When he clicked [Game Center], he saw the friend ranking list above. Only Xu Xing's points were there, and there were three games.

"Good boy, it looks like you often play games on your phone." Xu Jian clicked his tongue and immediately clicked on the [Conversation] page to send a reminder to Xu Xing.

[Xu Jian]: Play less games on a daily basis. Mobile phone data is very expensive, so you can save some money, you know?

[Xu Xing]: Why do you say this suddenly?

[Xu Jian]: I see on your game ranking list, the points are pretty high. Do you play it often?

【Xu Xing】: Oh, that.

【Xu Xing】: It’s not all sister Nian Nian’s fault.

[Xu Xing]: This software, including those games, was developed by the company where Sister Niannian works. I had to download it to play.

[Xu Xing]: Isn’t this to help her promote it, including this WeChat assistant, you can also help promote it when you have time.

[Xu Xing]: And this thing is much more convenient than text messages. Do you think it is very convenient for us to chat now?

Seeing the messages Xu Xing sent one after another, Xu Jian was a little dazed. His clumsy fingers tapped on the screen of his mobile phone, unable to keep up with the speed at which Xu Xing sent messages.

Every time he was about to reply to the previous sentence, Xu Xing had already sent the next sentence, so he had to delete the content and enter new content every time.

[Xu Jian]: I still feel it’s not very easy to use.

【Xu Xing】:Ah? Why?

[Xu Jian]: Typing is too slow and I can’t press the button. It’s better to make a phone call.

[Xu Xing]: It’s okay. Sister Niannian said that the voice chat function will be launched next week. You can just speak and send voice messages without typing.

[Xu Jian]: Then why don’t I call directly?

[Xu Xing]: What if I am in class? If you use WeChat to contact me, using both text and voice, I can take a look or listen secretly while the teacher is not paying attention. It would be too conspicuous to make a phone call.

[Xu Jian]: Already in class? Then you are still playing with your mobile phone!

[Xu Xing]: I’m just making an analogy... I’m having breakfast.

[Xu Xing]: For example, if you have some small things at home, you usually don’t feel the need to call me to tell me. You can also send them to me on WeChat in the future.

[Xu Jian]: Okay, okay, no more chatting, you go to school.

For a middle-aged man like Xu Jian, he was already in his thirties when QQ was first born.

When he first registered a QQ account in his early 00s, he was probably close to forty years old.

Although it is not difficult for him to accept this new thing at this time, it is certainly not as fast as young people.

This is still the case on the computer, let alone moving QQ on the computer to the mobile terminal.

Although the QQ team has tried its best to optimize mobile QQ, which is more lightweight than the computer version of QQ, it is only compared to the computer version.

In terms of use, the original mobile QQ still had some computer-side characteristics. In terms of operation logic and market positioning, it did not fully adapt to the use logic of mobile phones.

Especially in terms of user positioning.

Although QQ users also add real-life family members, relatives and friends, they mostly interact socially with online friends.

Communication with relatives and friends relies more on mobile phone calls. Very few people use QQ specifically to contact them, especially middle-aged and elderly people.

On the contrary, among young people, they may be more willing to use QQ to contact their classmates and friends. In terms of their behavioral logic, they have already developed a certain habit.

But in the current era when mobile Internet is just emerging, young people actually have to cross the threshold of their parents if they want to own a smartphone.

This means that the mobile phone ownership rate of adults is currently much higher than that of minors under 18 years old.

Especially people between the ages of 20 and 50 are the main owners of smartphones.

Among them, users under the age of 35 are more familiar with QQ because they have embraced the trend of the Internet era since they were young. Even though the operation of mobile QQ is a bit complicated, there is no obstacle to their use.

For middle-aged people like Xu Jian who are already rushing to turn 50, there is no need to use QQ.

First, he has not cultivated the habit of communicating with netizens on QQ on the computer. Second, once he does not use QQ on the computer, then asking him to use mobile QQ will definitely be more difficult than WeChat.

And the third most important point is that he does not have a friend relationship chain that must be maintained on QQ.

Even though I have added some relatives as QQ friends, they have basically never chatted on QQ. They usually contact me by phone when something happens, and they have not developed the habit of using instant messaging software like QQ to communicate.

This period is also the best time for a series of mobile instant messaging software such as WeChat to enter the market.

Because it is rooted in the development path of the mobile terminal, what is different from the development logic of mobile QQ is that what WeChat does is not subtraction, but addition from zero to one.

Therefore, in the chat page, after the chat partner's nickname is displayed at the top, the other party's message will only have an avatar and a corresponding text box, and the other party's nickname will not appear at the top.

At this time, mobile QQ still retains the habit of the computer. Every time a message is sent, the information displayed is two lines.

The first line is the other party's avatar + nickname + the time when the message was sent, and the second line is the content sent by the other party.

This leads to the fact that with just two or three sentences, the mobile page becomes too full and has to be scrolled down.

This kind of small details can be seen almost everywhere in the early mobile QQ. Until WeChat was born later, everyone said that the function of WeChat was to continuously add useful functions on QQ.

But everyone knows that in terms of various details of the UI layout, Mobile QQ has been absorbing nutrients from WeChat, and has slowly evolved into a template that is most suitable for mobile phone users.

In this world, there is no WeChat yet, only the newly born WeChat.

Mobile QQ still retains the operating habits brought by the computer version of QQ. It completely treats the mobile phone as a small computer, and all types of layouts are based on the ideas of the computer version.

It won’t look cluttered when placed on a large-screen computer, but when placed on a small mobile phone screen, it will appear bloated to users.

Long-term QQ users may find it acceptable, but for middle-aged people like Xu Jian who rarely interact with QQ, this has become an invisible threshold for QQ to further convert such users.

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On the morning of the 8th, Xu Xing, who had tricked Xu Jian and Sun Wanhui into downloading WeChat, rode his electric bike back to school with Yan Chijuan after breakfast.

When entering the school gate, two classmates held leaflets in their arms and distributed them to students and teachers passing by.

Yan Chijuan took a flyer, looked down at it, and read word for word: "Ei.me takeaway platform, download the software, you can place orders at dozens of high-quality restaurants around the school, and there are also discounts.

Waiting for you to come and participate~"

"Has it started?" Xu Xing laughed immediately when he heard this, "Why don't you try ordering one at noon?"

"Is this a product launched by our company?"

"Well, I asked Dai Zhuoshan to develop it." Xu Xing rode an electric bike to the door of the teaching building, "My roommate is doing the specific promotion."

"Want to help?" Yan Chiju supported Xu Xing's shoulders, jumped out of the car carefully, and then asked, "Xu Yingying and the others have also joined many departments and societies, so maybe they can help."

"You can talk to them." Xu Xing didn't mind, and if a beauty like Xu Yingying could join the army of promotions, the effect would be better. "If they are interested, let them find it."

Zhang Nong, you can help me clean the dormitory building for a fee."

For promotion in schools, Xu Xing prepared a total of 200,000 yuan, but in fact he did not use so much.

For example, if you sponsor activities of school departments and clubs for only a few thousand dollars at a time, you can get these college students to help you promote them.

For things like handing out flyers and sweeping buildings, if you are looking for an acquaintance, the price can be kept very low, or even a cup of milk tea can be done with a good relationship.

Xu Xing is not so deceptive, but the expenses will not be too much. The reserve fund of 200,000 yuan will probably last a month or two, or maybe until the end of the semester.

With this thought in mind, the two of them arrived at the classroom where the class was held.

Yan Chiju found his roommate's seat, secretly waved to Xu Xing, and trotted to sit next to his roommate.

Xu Xing looked around and couldn't find his three roommates. Instead, squad leader Xue Weiqiang came to them.

"Xu Xing, remember to go to the counselor's office at noon." Xue Weiqiang said, "Old Wu has something to do with you."

"Huh?" Xu Xing looked strange, "What's the matter?"

"What else can be done?" Xue Weiqiang looked at him speechlessly, "You took at least seven or eight days of leave last month, and I didn't count those who skipped classes without taking leave. Old Wu won't look for you.

Who to look for."

Seeing Xu Xing's expression of confusion and laughter, Xue Weiqiang shook his head in disappointment: "I think you are hopeless."

Originally, he thought that Xu Xingneng was lucky enough to be admitted to Min University, so he would study harder.

But who would have thought that as soon as school started, this guy would frequently ask for leave, and he didn't know what he was doing.

However, after Xue Weiqiang joined the student union during this period, he also talked a lot with his classmates and seniors. He also heard some rumors about Xu Xing's situation. He probably went to an Internet cafe outside the school to play games, fell into trouble, failed the class, and was finally expelled from the school.

class result.

Originally, Xue Weiqiang was somewhat hostile to Xu Xing because of his girlfriend Wang Jiaxin.

But with Xu Xing's behavior over the past month, Xue Weiqiang felt that his previous self was a bit too sensitive.

This kind of inferior student who thinks everything is fine as soon as he enters college and only thinks about going to Internet cafes to play games, why should he care?

Xu Xing had no idea what this guy was thinking, so he just asked again: "Monitor, have you seen my roommate?"

"Ha." Xue Weiqiang curled his lips, "I'm asking for leave."

From this look, he was led astray by Xu Xing.

Xue Weiqiang didn't want to say more to him. He only hoped that Old Wu could educate him well for this guy who didn't study well and ruined the atmosphere in the dormitory.

Xu Xing looked at his back as he turned away and blinked. He always felt that Xue Weiqiang's hostility towards him... turned into a bit of a hatred of iron that cannot be transformed into steel?

Shaking his head with a smile, Xu Xing glanced at the classroom and confirmed that the three people had indeed taken leave to promote the takeout platform and did not come to class. He simply walked to the empty seat next to Yan Chijuan, lowered his head and asked: "Is there anyone sitting here?

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Yan Chijiu looked up and saw him, and opened her mouth slightly in surprise. On the other hand, Li Nan on the side had already waved and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, sit down, sit down, there is no one else around."

"Thank you." Xu Xing sat down safely and turned to look at Yan Chijuan.

Yan Chijiu lowered his head with a guilty conscience and did not dare to look at him.

Because they agreed to keep their relationship a secret, Yan Chijuan specifically told Xu Xing this morning not to be overly intimate with her in school.

Although Xu Xing felt that there was really no need to do so, Yan Chijue still insisted on doing so because he was afraid of anything less than ten thousand.

So when he saw Xu Xing sitting here, Yan Chijue suddenly became a little nervous, fearing that he would mess up.

"Xu Xing, why don't you go find your roommate?" Yan Chijiu hinted in a low voice.

"They asked for leave, leaving me alone." Xu Xing quietly reached under the table and squeezed Yan Chiju's little hand, "Fortunately, you are kind enough to take me in."

Yan Chijuan was startled by his actions, and quickly retracted his hand, and secretly glared at him with his mouth bulging.

Li Nan on the side heard it and laughed and said: "You're welcome, you're welcome."

To be honest, even if Yan Chijiu doesn't admit it, several people in the dormitory have already agreed on the relationship between Yan Chijiu and Xu Xing.

So it doesn't make much difference whether Yan Chi is jealous or not.

In other words, now that Yan Chijue told Xu Xing that they wanted to hide their relationship, it was no longer just a matter of hiding it, it was more like a little interest between two people.

Such as now.

Yan Chijiu silently leaned forward with his upper body and put his right hand on the table, completely blocking Li Nan's view.

Then she stretched out her little hand with peace of mind and placed it in Xu Xing's hand. She was wrapped in his big hand, feeling warm and comfortable.

And when he thought about the underground behavior hidden from his roommates, Yan Chiju felt a little irritated. He would chat with Li Nan and the others from time to time, talking about Zhang Nong's takeout platform, while Xiao Shou was lingering with Xu Xing under the table.

Yan Chijuan's hand was very petite, about half the size of Xu Xing's palm. When Xu Xing held it in his hand, it looked very cute and small.

Xu Xing liked to squeeze her little hands, open and flatten her nervously clenched fists little by little, then touch her fingers and write on her palms.

When she got tired of playing, I would hold her little hand, intertwining their fingers, thumb to thumb, and I would never get tired of playing.

On the premise of ensuring safety, Yan Chijuan will also play with Xu Xing's palm in turn.

They would curiously touch the rough calluses on Xu Xing's palms, grab one of his fingers and shake it back and forth, or when someone scratched their palms, they would deliberately pinch one of his fingers and squeeze hard as a punishment.

"Is this what jealousy is talking about?"

While the two were secretly playing with each other, Xu Yingying on the side had already taken out a leaflet and asked Yan Chijue, "I also received it when I had breakfast in the cafeteria today. Download this software and you can order takeout."

Is it done?"

"Hmm." Yan Chijuan was being pinched by Xu Xing, while pretending to be nonchalant and said to his roommate, "This is a food delivery software made in Xu Xing's dormitory. You can try it at noon and support it."

"It's amazing. Did you make it yourself?" Xue Hong had already downloaded this in the morning. Although she hadn't used it yet, she clicked on it and took a look. At first she thought it was nothing, but she heard that her classmates made it themselves.

software, he was suddenly surprised and said, "Is this considered starting a business?"

"Uh... It's just a small fuss." Xu Xing smiled, "There should only be a dozen or so shops near the school joining in, so the choices are relatively limited."

"More than a dozen are not enough?" Li Nan leaned over and looked at the EatMe APP that Xue Hong had just opened, "There is my favorite rice noodles. I will order one after class at noon."

Several girls had a lively discussion that didn't stop until the bell rang.

When get out of class ended at noon, Xu Xing stood up and said to Yan Chiju: "I have to go to the counselor's office. You and your roommate should go have dinner first."

"Yeah, okay."

Watching Xu Xing leave, the next second, Yan Chiju was suddenly hugged by Li Nan from behind: "Hey, you still don't admit it? You will default to going to dinner with Xu Xing after class? You even asked Xu Xing to say it, so you would follow

Shall we have dinner together?"

"Hmm..." Yan Chijiu didn't react just now, but he discovered the loophole at this time, so he quickly added, "Didn't I find a part-time job in a company outside? Xu Xing also worked part-time in that company, and he

My sister is here too, and he helped me find a job before, so we are used to eating together."

"Hey." Li Nan smiled and pinched Yan Chiju's cheek, "I just like the way you open your eyes and tell lies."

"Okay, okay." Xu Yingying covered her mouth and said with a smile, "Let's go back to the dormitory. How about trying this takeaway."

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On the other side, Xu Xing came to the college building alone. As he was going upstairs, his phone vibrated several times.

I took it out and saw that it was a WeChat message from Liao Qinyu.

[Liao Qinyu]: Mr. Xu, the number of WeChat users has exceeded one million.

[Xu Xing]: Okay, keep it up, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

【Liao Qinyu】:Understood.

Putting away his phone, Xu Xing was in a good mood.

Since the new version was updated at noon yesterday, exactly one day has passed, and the number of WeChat users has doubled. This shows how terrible the effect of the address book friend function is.

As long as the initial growth rate can be maintained, as the number of users continues to increase, the fission effect in the later period will only become stronger and stronger.

Now we have to see how long it will take for Tencent's QQ to respond.

With this in mind, Xu Xing found counselor Wu Zhiguo's office and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

After hearing Lao Wu's voice, Xu Xing pushed the door open and smiled politely: "Teacher Wu, I am Xu Xing from Class 8. The monitor said you were looking for me?"

"Oh, Xu Xing, right?" Wu Zhiguo thought of this and looked at Xu Xing with helpless eyes. Thinking of the number of times this guy had asked for leave last month, he sighed and waved to him, "Come on,

Come sit here and let’s chat.”