Note: Ge Yun, 32, a housewife and mother of a 4-year-old son in Beijing, has quit using a micro blog for some time and is also considering using her Wechat more discreetly.

I became a fan of micro blogs and Wechat a long time ago, almost as the two applications were born several years ago. But now I gradually lost interest in them and felt unsafe in the online platforms.

In the beginning, I excitedly shared my son's photos on my micro blog, hoping my friends could understand my feelings, but later I deleted all of them.