PR-Social Topic Research

I have always been a loyal reader of Zhihu Forum. In this forum, people often post their questions. Under the question, anyone can reply, and everyone will have a different interpretation of the same question.

I have followed a lot of questions on this forum, such as "What is the most incapable of overdraft in a person's life?", "What is the loneliest photo you have ever taken?" "Is there anything delicious near the University of Edinburgh?" etc.

Among them, there is a topic I have been following for a year, and someone will post new replies below the topic from time to time. The topic is "My WeChat friend has died for two years. Should I unfriend him?". There are always many deep and sad answers below these topics.

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There was a girl whose fiancé was killed in a car accident. She said that all he left for her were the memories of the past, and the chat records in WeChat contained his voice and text during his lifetime, and the pictures he sent her. , That is a trace of his existence in the world.

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His elementary school classmate was a policeman who was crushed to pieces by a drunk-driving truck on his way home from work, leaving his wife who was six months pregnant. His WeChat moments has always been in the state when he unexpectedly passed away six years ago, and his signature is still the popular "Responsibility Honor Country" at that time.

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One of his netizens did not recover well after a major operation and passed away two years ago. They never met while she was alive, so he didn't even know where she was buried. The only thing left between them is the chat history and game link she shared with him during her lifetime.

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His answer is not like remembering his former lover, relatives, and friends like most respondents. He talked about David Eagleman's novel Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives says, A man dies three times in his life: the first time is when he dies, he is biologically dead; The second time is when he is buried, people come to his funeral in memory of his life, he is socially dead; The third time is when the last person who remembers him pass away, and then he is really dead. He said that if people alive forget those who have left, is this world too cold?

Most of the respondents below this topic are mumbling to those who have accompanied them in their lives. Some people leave suddenly, while others leave slowly.

Everyone thinks, why delete these chat records? Although these texts, pictures and videos are only hidden in the small two-dimensional space of mobile phones, they carry those very important and good memories between people.