Saturday, November 28, 2009

Different Faces on Xiaonei


On Xiaonei, not only individuals have accounts there, but some organizations, such as the Green and Peace Organization, have accounts and their facebook page. Also, some newspapers and magazines opened pages on Xiaonei one after another to express news on their pages. Besides, some famous and successful people in China including educationalist and entrepreneur have facebook page on Xiaonei too. Even Confucius has an account, and all the information in his portfolio is true information about Confucius. On his page there are many articles about Confucius thoughts, and some times he “writes” something in his status to encourage students to study harder in a humorous way. What merits our attention is that many Chinese traditional festivals have accounts in Xiaonei to introduce Chinese traditional culture for the young generations. And I see some of my friends add friends with these festivals. It is prevalent in resent years in China that more and more Chinese young generations are willing to celebrate western festivals like Christmas day, valentine’s day, Halloween and so on, but they know less or even little about many Chinese traditional days. However, Xiaonei provides a platform to spread Chinese culture to young generations in a very popular and funny way that youngsters are fond of.

Xiaonei network is growing and enriching fast recently that I often find something new there which impressed me a lot. I see it has great potential benefit for education.