Nearly forty percent of China’s young people born after 1990 have turned off notifications（通知）from social media apps due 【小题1】 sensing the negative effects of social media, according to the 【小题2】(recent) released Kantar China Social Media Impact Report, Beijing Evening News reported.

The report shows that all kinds of social media, especially WeChat, 【小题3】(become) more and more popular in the past years among people over the age of 40, 【小题4】 the WeChat use of the “post-90s” generation has slightly decreased, from 94.1 percent to 86.6 percent.

Most of those people 【小题5】(interview) for the report mentioned that positive effects of social media include socializing with 【小题6】(acquaintance) and taking in more information. However, respondents also noted that social media has caused them to read fewer books, suffer from 【小题7】(bad) eyesight, sleep less and have less privacy, among other concerns.

As 【小题8】 result, 39 percent of the “post-90s”generation attempts 【小题9】(avoid) the negative effects of mobile phone use. In the first place, they turn off app notifications when necessary. Moreover, they intentionally limit the 【小题10】(frequent) of social media interactions and stay away from social media entirely in certain situations.

Do you find that so many emojis (表情符号) are used in your online communication? Has "Happy Birthday" become a cake with lighted candles? Since they were invented 【小题1】 the 1990s in Japan, emojis, meaning “picture characters”, 【小题2】 (occupy) the world. According to a UK-based mobile technology company, 6 billion emojis 【小题3】 (use) in text messages are sent around the world every day through smart phones. Emojis are regarded as a new kind of 【小题4】 (express). Behind the popularity of emojis is the rise of young people 【小题5】 welcome new technology and new 【小题6】 (invention). And the reason why young people as well as others love emojis is that they show meaning 【小题7】 (beautiful). When young people are asked 【小题8】 makes the generation unique, they put “technology use” first.

Now emojis seem to be in much 【小题9】 (wide) use than written words. As 【小题10】 result, people begin to doubt whether it has made up a too large part in our online communication.

In June, 2021, China had about 285 million Internet users living in rural areas, 【小题1】(account) for over 30 percent of the country’s total, according to a report on China’s Internet development. The number of rural Internet users in China 【小题2】 (grow) by over 30 million in few months.

The report said the Internet is playing a 【小题3】 (great) role than ever in the country’s poverty reduction efforts, with the public’s participation in and recognition of relevant campaigns on the rise. It said as of June, online promotions of 【小题4】 (agriculture) products from remote areas had reached more than half of the Chinese Internet users, 【小题5】that more than one third of netizens had bought such products via online platforms.

Meanwhile, the report shows that e-commerce live streaming(直播) grew【小题6】 (increasing) active in the first half of the year. As of June, the number of e-commerce live streaming【小题7】 (use) in China had hit 309 million. China saw over 10 million live marketing activities in the first half of this year, attracting over 50 billion views, the report noted.

The report said the Internet can contribute significantly【小题8】China’s rural revitalization goal by providing jobs, social security and medical service information for【小题9】poor and allowing children in poverty-stricken areas 【小题10】 (access) better education.