Patients are using WeChat to pay medical fees.

In the last October, in China, three doctors at the No.1 People's hospital in Wenling were stabbed to death by a patient, Lian Enqing; because of the frustration in waiting to see the doctors. Jason Lim believes that there is lack of effective channels for patients to raise up their voice, and the doctors were over prescribe medicine to earn money instead of taking care of the patient (Sources form http://www.scmp.com/comment/article/1505691/china-must-heed-anger-over-health-care-standards-curb-hospital-violence ).



 WeChat has decided to step in and resolve this issues in China. WeChat has become a pervasive part of people's daily lives. It is important to improve the efficeincy in China's hospital system especially when a hospital is dealing with 10000 patiens everyday.



Now patients can follow the official WeChat, or by scanning the QR code which posted by the hospital, this could help the patients view the information about specialist doctors to make an appointment. WeChat also provide payment system for the patients to pay their registration fee and medicine costs through the app. Besides, patients get to monitor where they are in the que too. After seeing the doctors, patients can bind their medical card with official acount, they can check the dates and time for return visit. It has became very convenient for patients and admins could save more time and energy in having one-to-one register.

With all these abilities, WeChat has become an effective tool to solve social problems in this society.

Sources: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jlim/2014/06/16/wechat-is-being-trialed-to-make-hospitals-more-efficient-in-china/

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WeChat: A new platform to advertise.

Now, WeChat is looking for new ways to expand its
organization: through providing platform for company to advertise their product or services. Organization will not have the chance to launch their product or services until they have 100,000 followers. The reasons why WeChat is doing this is to ensure to get feedback about the service so that it can help them to improve. "Ads will show up as text links at the bottom of each official account page". If users are interested on the product or services, they can click in and search for more details about it.


According to WeChat, official account owners can target their customers based on their age, gender and region. Through these, account owners can target various segments in the market through providing their adv accordingly. And this could help the owner to attract more consumers form different markets.


A handy dashboards is also provided to these owners, so that they could monitor the performances of the ads which they recently put them up on WeChat, and the owners are also allowed to make adjustments accordingly.

Facebook manipulates 700k users newsfeed in secret?!

Bad move, Facebook!

For one week in 2012 - and without the explicit consent or knowledge of users - Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place posts into their news feeds to study how this affected their mood.
The researchers wanted to see if the number of positive or negative words in messages they read affected whether users then posted positive or negative content in their status updates.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-30/backlash-over-facebooks-unethical-secret-study/5558560



Recently, this issue have come under fire, causing Facebook to received backlash from the public.
On 30 June 2014,Twitter user @Chris_yapp expressed his disappointment on twitter.
'I will not post on #FacebookExperiment till they agree not to conduct further research without explicit consent'
And he is only one of many who are angered at Facebook's manipulation of users' emotions.

Facebook, looks like you've gone overboard this time!

Too much Facebook?

Are we spending too much time on Facebook? Are we letting it take over our lives?

Referring to my previous post on the article of Facebook trying to be a TV channel with new mobile video player, while many users have been praising this innovation is and how convenient it is for them, I would like to raise some light on the negative effects as well.
Kids nowadays as young as 7-8 years old or even younger have a Facebook account. This social networking giant has gotten many people all around the globe whether young or old hooked onto it. Whereby we get the issue : Facebook addiction.
As of today, we already have so many people addicted to Facebook. This new feature of Facebook will only increase the time spent on Facebook. Thus, causing the problem of Facebook addiction to worsen.
Easier videos viewing let Facebook soak up more of users’ time. This attention makes Facebook more powerful by entrenching it in people’s lives, denying competitors the engagement, and generating data on what content and friends people like best.
Would you be more hooked unto Facebook now with this new feature offered? More positive or negative effect? You'd have to weigh them and decide for yourself  ;)
 
 

Source:http://www.techaddiction.ca/facebook-addiction-statistics.html

But First, Let Me Take A Snelfie

Have we had just about enough of people taking pictures of themselves which resulted in a worldwide craze and led to the popularisation of the incredibly annoying electronic song, #Selfie? Apparently Instagrammers are still so much into it that the selfie has evolved to the new fad of taking what people have been calling ‘snelfies’ - pictures taken when one is in the middle of a sneeze. The question of why these snelfie-takers are so intent on documenting their sneezes for everyone else to see is almost too mind-boggling to comprehend, so we’re asking another question instead - how? How is it possible that a person can snap their split-second scrunched up faces? We can’t deny that even if they seem slightly loony, these radicals have got skill. 

 

 

 

[Source: http://www.refinery29.com/2014/06/69476/snelfie-trend]

Tapping into New Markets

Small businesses have been getting a huge boost in advertising and marketing their goods on Instagram - all at zero fixed cost. Because the social media app is completely free and already has such an expansive user database, vendors of goods like clothes, baked items and other physical merchandise have been able to use the service to reach a larger audience.

 

 

[Source: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/small-businesses-sales-off-instagram-040110649.html]

Twitter the New Killer Relationship Machine

Twitter May Kill your Relationship             

      Your next Twitter war may cost you your relationship, researchers say.People who actively use Twitter and argue with their romantic partners over Twitter use are more likely to have relationship problems with their significant others, which can result in cheating, break-up or divorce, according to a study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
     When one uses any social media in hazardous way, it will surely lead to these negative outcomes or conflicts. The best solution towards this is not to stop using social media but limit yourself towards act you only do behind the computer screen.

Resource by: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/09/twitter-romance-relationship-breakup-divorce-cheating/12377979/