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bababardwan
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February 7, 2013 at 2:03 PMoh, thanks Chris...and what about qq, sina weibo, renren, kaixinwang ?
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February 7, 2013 at 2:02 PM"unless 柏大伟1951 in 成都 is you."
一定是他。。。我保证是他
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February 7, 2013 at 1:38 PMI'm in the process of registering, and it looks like the Chinese ID thing was optional...didn't have a red asterix. I got to this bit asking for my passport and was about to bail till I noticed the lack of asterix
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February 7, 2013 at 12:39 PMthanks Helen for the interesting article:
http://www.techinasia.com/tencent-responds-wechat-censoring-sensitive-words/#sthash.yYE1UH57.dpuf
...yeah, can't see that censorship going down too well outside of china. The most interesting point I think was:
"In the long run, so long as the app safeguards free speech for all other languages"
...I think that'll be true for non chinese speakers. But I'm curious about the great wall....does the filtering and censorship just apply to Chinese? I'm under the impression that stuff in English is also filtered and censored in China. If so, how far do they take it with other languages? Japanese? French? ...surely there'd be a language they're no longer checking on. I wonder if Swahili study will take off in China....
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February 7, 2013 at 12:17 PM"look for people nearby"
..people you know, contacts you mean, right?
"send a short voice message and use it like a walky-talky"
..oh yeah, I heard about this a while back, maybe it was here on the boards somewhere...can't recall now...could be fun...wonder if the other sites will soon adopt that feature. Reminds me, I've recently discovered just how good apples facetime can be. Wonder if there are any Chinese equivalents to that.
"everyone, including expats is using it! "
...yeah, that's interesting. I'm reading into this that it must be reasonably user friendly [English speaker friendly] if expats are using it because I'm under the impression, and I could be wrong here, that the majority of expats don't make much effort to learn chinese [and that is obviously excluding all the expats that are on this site...so if you're reading this, I'm probably not talking about you, unless you're on a flyby, hehe]
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February 7, 2013 at 12:09 PM“if QQ was blatant malware”
。。。hmm, depends what type of malware I guess, but I wouldn't have been inclined to think it was nasty in and of itself, more concerned about being an unintentional intermediary, a leaky sieve, that sort of thing.
"foreigners, but the casual 30 -50 I know don't use it "
...how many of those foreigners have more than a passing interest in learning chinese? Of those that are seriously studying it, if they aren't using qq, what are they on, if anything?
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February 7, 2013 at 9:16 AMha, it also gives qq a totally clean bill of health...hmmmm...
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February 7, 2013 at 8:34 AMHey Pretz,
this one is a bewdy mate:
http://safeweb.norton.com/
...I love the run down it gives....sina weibo comes up clean in all departments. Now to see what it thinks of qq....
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February 7, 2013 at 8:30 AMpretz, thanks for this one mate:
http://global.sitesafety.trendmicro.com/index.php
..which worked well, and gave sina weibo a nice big comforting reassuring happy green tick
just noticed theres an aussie weibo site:
http://weibo.com.au/
...but it doesn't look related to sina weibo to me so I'm not interested in that....only in the main one being used in China
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February 7, 2013 at 2:11 PMok, so wechat is by tencent also....so that begs the question....does it have malware problems like qq [at least used to?]
also just checked in itunes and there is wechat and wechat voice [the latter obviously referring to the walkie talkie like function you referred to]. So do you get both then [complementary ] or does one do all the other does and then some?