Contradictions need to be reconciled.
Alipay bills are a reserved program for the annual show of wealth in the circle of friends. This year’s bill has been released, but it seems less exciting than in previous years. The 2019 Alipay bill will still show your spending in the past year, but it will no longer show your “consumption level is leading 99% of your peers” as in previous years.
About this adjustment, the official Alipay responded to 36 氪, saying, “ The annual bill is more restrained. Pay attention to individuals. Alipay not only lets everyone spend money, but also more importantly, Butler helps everyone manage money. “
Now open the Alipay App, go to “My” and then click “Bills”, then click Banner “Your 2019 bill is here” after the jump, verify the password, fingerprint or facial information as required to get the past year List of expenses on Alipay.
As in previous years, Alipay will count the user’s use time, and display it as “I have spent X days with Alipay”, and the category that the user spends the most, such as “I spend the most on transportation, spend it “X yuan”, as well as the frequency with which users use Alipay offline, the frequency with which Alipay calls takeaway, the cumulative number of steps taken, the results of energy conservation and emission reduction, and the achievements of Wufu.
Finally, on the segmented bill, Alipay will list several sub-bills with the highest expenses, including dressing, transportation, home life, eating and drinking, learning and fitness, transfers and red envelopes, and so on.
The bill for 2019 retains the “one-click hiding” feature for 2018. On the Alipay bill details page, if users want to share screenshots and worry about privacy leaks, they can manually hide the specific consumption amount. In addition, the small print on the account line shows, “Seeing that the Spring Festival is coming, waiting for the five blessings to start the year,” proves that this year’s Spring Festival will be continued.
In September 2019, Alipay officially announced that Alipay had more than 1.2 billion users worldwide.
January is the time when the annual user reports of major applications are released. In the past few days, applications such as Zhihu, Weibo, Bilibili, Netease Cloud Music have made statistical reports for users, but WeChat reports are still missing.
In January 2019, WeChat rarely released its annual report for the first time, but compared to Alipay, the report has much less content and a lot of splashes.
The “2018 WeChat Annual Data Report” shows mostly “collective big data” rather than “personal small data”. For example, WeChat has 1.082 billion users staying active every month and 45 billion messages are sent out every day. There are 410 million audio calls every day and so on. There is only one item related to the user, that is, “you have traveled with Wechat for X days”.
Even so, because of the sensitive nature of social applications, there are still voices questioning whether Tencent violates users’ privacy.
Tencent said that the annual data report of WeChat strictly complies with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations. All data has been anonymized and desensitized, and does not involve the privacy of specific users. It also said that the emoticon data is counted according to the click frequency The parent-child relationship of a video call is a guess based on age.
Moreover, the response from the WeChat report last year was also much smaller than the Alipay report. According to the People’s Daily News Channel, compared to Alipay, WeChat reported less public opinion exposure. During the monitoring period (January 9, 2019 to January 15, 2019), the amount of relevant information was 10,622. In the seven-day period (January 8 to January 14) after Alipay issued its annual bill, the total amount of relevant public opinion reached 25,384.
Referring to the first test of water last year, WeChat user reports may not come out this year. This incident also proved that not all applications are suitable for user summary.
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