Zhang Xiaolong once said that all the products he designed have profound annotations, and the drift bottle is one of the more humanized products. At the beginning, WeChat drift bottle was a small application of QQ mailbox launched on 20 10. Its main function is to let the post-80s and post-90s put their ideas into the bottle, so as to get greetings from strangers. For those who catch bottles, it seems that every time they catch a bottle, it is as if they really want to cross the ocean. But now, with the changes of major communication products, WeChat has extended to the function of the drift bottle, which finally represents our curiosity about the world. After WeChat took the drift bottle off the shelf, we left with WeChat.

In fact, the removal of the WeChat drift bottle is not without warning. There have been media reports that there are illegal transactions in the function of WeChat drift bottle. Recently, according to the official explanation of WeChat, the information scattered in the drift bottle violated the relevant national laws and regulations, so it was rectified and removed. In the eyes of many people, although the drift bottle is only an accessory function of WeChat, Tencent's rectification efforts are obviously not as great as WeChat and QQ. Prior to this, most of the information transmitted by WeChat drift bottles was related to adverse effects. Relevant data shows that users have picked up 25 bottles for 4 consecutive days, 7 of which have illegal information.

Not only that, the drift bottle also has some disadvantages in the logic of the product. For example, when communicating with strangers, there is no need for relevant verification at all. Even if there are illegal drift bottles, after being reported, the other party is only prohibited from using drift bottles at most, which has no effect on the real use of WeChat. Perhaps this is the biggest loophole in the drift bottle. Many illegal elements use the function of drift bottles to spread illegal information, and these illegal people will not be punished by real titles.

Nowadays, under the influence of many WeChat users, the drift bottle seems to have been a communication tool full of unspeakable words and pictures. Talking to strangers seems to have become a permanent resistance in the hearts of many WeChat users. Now in the announcement of WeChat, it shows that the function of the drift bottle is to remove it temporarily, not permanently. This situation means that this emotional function may have a chance to return, and of course it will also bring stricter control. But under such circumstances, is the drift bottle still attractive to users?

We must know that the current APP world is no longer an era of social scarcity. When we open the related app store, thousands of apps are leading us to make friends with strangers from different angles. Of course, it is not excluded that these apps can replace drift bottles to a certain extent, but what can never be replaced is the feelings of a generation.