How-to-Add-Wechat-Friend

Why adding WeChat contacts still matters for US students in China If you’re a United States student, researcher, or expat heading to China — or already there — you already know one thing: WeChat isn’t just an app, it’s the local nervous system. From group chats for classes, dorm life, and landlord check-ins, to payment links and study sessions, missing a WeChat connection is like missing a phone number in the pre-smartphone era. The trouble is, the platform keeps changing. Lately the industry chatter has been about username-based contact discovery on messaging apps — a feature WhatsApp is rolling out that lets people search each other by username rather than phone number. That shift matters because it hints at what WeChat users everywhere will expect next: easier discovery, less phone-number sharing, and new privacy trade-offs. ...