If you see two elementary school students on the street nodding to each other, making "bumping fists" together, and finally parting ways with a mysterious smile...
There is no doubt that they are indeed performing mysterious rituals.
It's using a little genius phone watch to add friends to each other.
Little genius phone watch can touch and add friends
As we all know, in recent years, the little genius phone watch has created an unbreakable social barrier through the design of "little genius can only add friends with little genius", and continues to expand its own territory in the corner that adults cannot see.
Many adults may have heard a little about this. But what they don't know is how colorful this social kingdom called Little Genius really is.
They not only socialize offline, but also "expand", seek friends online, maintain the relationship between little geniuses, and even create the term "bezel", and mix this social circle built on children's watches.
There are also scams here, or three, six, nine, etc., but popularity is the only measure of strength——
Maybe the inconspicuous fart next to you may be the "big guy" in the bezel.
Every era has an iconic electronics brand. The childhood of the post-90s generation is Nokia, and the post-00s have Apple Huawei, and in the current era of elementary school students, the top is undoubtedly the little genius phone watch.
Many people's impression of it may still be brainwashing advertisements on TV, but in fact, the little genius has become the leading giant in the children's watch industry.
Its market share is high, and its reputation in domestic parent circles is also very loud. Part of the reason is also due to the social monopoly of the little genius: the little genius can only be friends with the little genius.
So once most of the students in the class use the little genius, then the rest of the children basically have no choice.
This matter is often criticized by a large number of parents, saying that their children bought Apple and Huawei watches, but they were ostracized because they could not integrate into the circle of small geniuses.
Nowadays, elementary school students who do not have a little genius watch can only live as an island in the class. In order to avoid this situation, most parents have to arrange for their children.
This is how a closed and exclusive social world of elementary school students emerged.
Just as adults run their own WeChat, little geniuses are also maintaining their watch friend circles.
Some of them began to call it "bezels".
It's just that although some elementary school students claim that there are many "watch bezels", in fact, this is still a pure land in the Internet, and the worst thing is nothing more than cursing or stealing numbers.
A little genius bravely pointed out the current chaos in the circle
But where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and you still need a certain amount of mind to mix the "bezel". If you want to get a foothold here, you have to accumulate a certain amount of popularity.
Children mixed with little genius circles basically have only one purpose: to collect likes on the homepage.
It was similar to the principle of QQ space at that time: the more likes on the little genius's personal homepage, the more face it would have, although this thing basically had no practical effect.
More than 100,000 can be regarded as a well-known big man in the circle.
But after all, every teenager has an age group that wants to chase fame and profit. So even if it's just a compliment from a classmate, it's worth the children's flock to it.
So in order to expand their friend list and create more opportunities to get liked, they began to actively socialize in their daily lives - a large number of parents have told similar warm stories: their children met a little genius on the road, and after a few words, they touched each other's watches and friends, showing a very tacit understanding.
But whenever there is a student gathering such as a spring outing, it will immediately become a social vanity fair for little geniuses.
But offline social circle expansion alone obviously cannot meet the needs of children. They soon set their sights on the wider Internet as well.
On today's major online platforms, there is no lack of recruitment information for little geniuses asking for friends.
The elementary school students enthusiastically declared that they wanted to mingle and hope to add more friends.
Among them, some people just want the friend list to be lively, or simply like to socialize; Some people are more purposeful, hoping to have more friends to like themselves.
A little genius congratulated his friend on breaking 150,000 likes.
They diligently praise each other every day and accumulate the popularity of their own homepages, just like the previous generation was keen to let friends fill in the classmates' directory, this little vanity exclusive to children is full of innocence and cuteness.
It's just that there are also relatively bad atmospheres, such as some children will use the method of "clearing friends without liking" to "trick" likes, which often causes dissatisfaction in the circle.
In addition to these, the "bezel" is basically no different from other children's social platforms, full of fairy tales, children's broken thoughts, like a young version of the circle of friends.
The only difference is that the "bezel" is more volatile, and the members often suddenly decrease or "withdraw from the circle" - in most cases, they grow up and change their phones.
In a small number of cases, it was because the "mixed circle" was captured alive by the parents.
The fall of the big guy
Or a short retirement during the start of school.
Another interesting phenomenon is that if there is an awkward trouble between children now, the first thing will be a little genius to delete each other's friends, but most of them will be added back after a while.
In general, the little genius "bezel" is like a miniature version of the adult social platform, which has become the first class for primary school students to step into this Internet era.
Whether it's social skills or sinister hearts, kids clearly learn something from mini-social relationships.
For example, the most awesome has to be the cracked version.
The previous generation used to play with Nokia snakes in the bed of the school dormitory, while the current generation chose to swipe the computer for the little genius and watch the B station behind their parents' back.