Why WeChat so Popular? I found that in italki many foreigners who wants to learn Chinese and experience the way how Chinese natives run their social life don’t have a direct way to get in touch with Chinese, of course, some people got a QQ number, but today, I’d like to recommend you an app called WeChat which is more popular among the youth, to some degree, like Whatsapp in your countries. Nowadays the population of users of WeChat is growing rapidly, however, QQ used to be the dominator in China’s SNS market. What’s changed? It’s not strange because when people get bored, WeChat’s new features make itself a game-changer. You can now send voice messages to your friends using WeChat, most importantly, without costing a cent in your account balance. WeChat use cellular data to send voice messages and it’s friendly in data cost with 1 Kb per second. This is a huge strike to telecommunications industry for many users found it economical to use cellular data instead of calling minutes. Secondly, WeChat is also integrated with a social networking feature named “Friends Circle”. Users can share photos and words with their close friends. Sounds lame, right? However the key here is “close friends”, people could only add someone to his/her friend list when they know exactly their friends’ account names or phone numbers instead of getting random people when you search for some keywords. Of course, if you want to try your luck, WeChat also have a feature called “Shake” to talk to people nearby using location services, but I will leave it to you to explore more.