Terrifying! A woman in Shanghai was sleeping, and her phone automatically posted comments? Plus, her account was secretly making friends and sharing content inexplicably...

Have you ever been scrolling on your phone

and suddenly realized you had done something

you “can’t remember”?

Recently, Ms. Jiang, a resident of Shanghai, shared her firsthand experience: while she was asleep, her account on a well-known life-services platform somehow posted a comment under someone else’s post—“Do you have Wi‑Fi?”

Did the account start “operating on its own”?

Ms. Jiang recalled that she had no memory of that post at all, and the comment was posted at a time when she had long since fallen into a dream. What left her even more stunned was that she had never seen that post at all; she had only been browsing relevant merchants recently.

When confronted with doubts, the platform customer service’s investigation result was: the account had only been logged into on her own phone, which ruled out the possibility of account theft.

Customer service speculated that this was very likely because Ms. Jiang accidentally triggered the automated comment feature called “You may also want to comment.”

This explanation left Ms. Jiang feeling helpless: “My account is saying things I never wanted to say, posting comments I never wanted to post. If the blogger hadn’t replied this time, I probably wouldn’t have even known. As a user, even if I know I didn’t do it, it’s hard for me to prove. In the end, the matter came to nothing.”

Even more bizarrely, reporters found that if a user wants to check the comments and replies on their personal notes, they can only go through the browsing records one by one in “Recently Browsed” and then look them up in the comments section—truly “needle-in-a-haystack.”

Your account might also be

“quietly making friends, gaming and climbing ranks”

The so-called “ghost comments” on life-services platforms are just the tip of the iceberg. Unusual actions by accounts on major platforms have made netizens exclaim, “The more you think about it, the more terrifying it gets.”

One netizen said that on a certain book app, it seems to “quietly” use your account to follow other people’s accounts too. “Every time, suddenly some totally random bloggers appear in my following list. A few days ago, I cleared my entire following list—no one, I wasn’t following anyone at all—yet somehow it secretly added someone again for me.”

This is no longer something you can explain as “accidental touches”

It’s more like the platform is forcing social activity on users

Many netizens have left comments

saying they had

similar experiences

a certain popular mobile game

And many players are also questioning

whether the game app is secretly using their accounts

to act as human-free bots and grind ranked matches?

You may never log in at all, but your account is still “fighting fiercely” in the arena. Does the account actually become free “labor” for maintaining a game’s activity level?

There are also netizens who shared that a certain short-video platform sometimes also will, on its own, take control of a user’s account—sharing videos with people they follow—but the actual situation is that they don’t use it at all in their daily life.

From automated commenting, to automatically (secretly) following others, and then to inexplicable sharing—this series of “shady operations,” where you’re treated like a bot, seems to be completely beyond the user’s control. No wonder netizens complain: So I’m just a tenant of this account, and the platform can use it however it wants?

If this kind of situation continues, will the future online world become “self-entertainment” for AI robots? The voices of real users would instead be drowned out. This kind of “fake interaction” not only severely degrades the user experience, but also makes the platform lose the true value of its traffic.

Moreover, once the “platform-level” permissions and controls have loopholes, sensitive data such as users’ account information and consumption records could be at risk of leaking—this is the most frightening hidden danger.

Have you encountered something like this before?

What do you think about it?

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