Meng Sun · Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
I'm from China and I would like to tell you that this is a sensationalization for a new social app: this girl posted her "ad" on several most popular social networks/forums in China. Certainly, it stirred up some discussions but not too much. (I'm an active Weibo user who checks hot topics on Weibo everyday, I didn't know this until just now I googled "Weibo" in order to log into my Weibo.) So a few days later, after enough many people have known about this and are about this ridiculous thing, she posted under her ad that she forgot to provide her contact information, and she hopes all applicants to contact her via a social app, one that nobody has ever heard of. Meanwhile, some news started to discuss about this, the articles are very similar, all with no authors and no source, but all talked about (introduced very detailed) this social app and claimed that they've all used this app. So, it's very clear that it's a marketing trick that the app's developers were playing: trying to get attention by faking something extremely ridiculous. It also could be that this girl wants to get famous, in this way it's fast though not glorious but people forget things and she has topics now she could really use it in the future. Main stream opinions in China about this ridiculous thing are 1, this is sick and should not be advocated 2. young girls should be really careful when travelling alone 3. stop such marketing tricks, not good at all.