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This is a more humorous follow up to my post about the differences in social network norms across western and eastern countries.

Recently, I've been trying to be more active on the Chinese version of Facebook in attempt to increase my understanding potentially for future professional benefits.

RenRen net started off as "Xiao Nei" which literally translates to "On Campus". It was an exact clone (or attempt at) of Facebook right down to the color and the interface. A few years ago, their team decided they wanted to expand their demographics to more than just students and was renamed to RenRen, which roughly translates to "Everyone". This puts it in a better position to compete against "Kaixin001" which is pretty much the same thing but with a different color scheme and targeted towards young professionals.

RenRen Interface

Through my poor understanding if written Chinese, I somehow stumbled upon a beta app, an extension to the main website named YuJian, which translates to "To Meet". Basically its a lighter version of the main social network application tailored towards "meeting people". Here is what it looks like:

Yu Jian

You're supposed to list your personal details so gold diggers can check you out and be like "yo! this guy baller" I've blacked it out to avoid embarrassment as it is extremely exaggerated for the lulz.

At first you think "There is nothing humorous about all of this". Then you need to keep reading. So a big difference between this and the main social network is that you can view profiles and rate people out of 10.

Needless to say, the first thing I decided to do was go trolling, giving people 1/10, 2/10, 3/10. You know? Just being a jerk.

After I trolled some girls, I decided to explore it a bit more. A notification pops in the corner of my eye. "Oarsome, someone rated me 10/10! I'm the fcking shi.... ah fuck its just a bot :("

Within a few seconds...I had realised, you can see exactly who has been on your page and what rating they gave you. Of course these girls i trolled were very happy to give me a 1/10. Life lesson learnt, don't be a jerk...

After a while, the girls all start to look the same...actually, they all look the same from the start. I don't mean that in a racist way, I mean that they all take oddly composed photos that are either over or under saturated. Most likely taken at home by themselves in some funny pose:

And then sometimes you see girls that takes it to the next level, some of my personal favourites include:

The Ultimate Duckface

Apparently shes 19... go figure.

Toilet Seat Duckface

"Must take dump, must rinse mouth, must look cute!"

The Semen Tears

I guess Chinese guys find this cute?

I thought pretending to model in your own bathroom was only for early high school kids? I guess that's not the case in China.

Apparently this girl is like 25 so something

Oh wait, that's not from China, that's someone on my actual Facebook friends' list...guess we're not all that different then.

The most ridiculously next level profile I stumbled upon turned out eventually to be a bot. But here is a picture at how ridiculous it was. Here is a sample:

I had to give her a 9/10 for effort

It was not until this person uploaded this following photo that I realized it was a bot...

Sorry I had to censor the boobs.

And with that I end my post. To be fair, there are some pretty hot girls on there, even if they don't show their boobs on their profile.

Peace.