Terrifying! A woman in Shanghai was sleeping, and her phone automatically posted comments? There are also accounts secretly making friends and sharing content inexplicably…

When you’re scrolling your phone,

do you suddenly realize you’ve done

something you

“can’t remember”?

Recently, a resident surnamed Jiang from Shanghai shared her personal experience: while she was asleep, her account on a well-known life services platform apparently left a comment under someone else’s post—“Do you have wifi?”

Did the account “start operating on its own”?

Jiang recalled that she had no memory of this post at all, and the time when the comment was published—she was already in a deep sleep. What left her even more stunned was that she hadn’t even seen this post; she had only browsed related merchants recently.

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

The customer service speculated that this was likely because Jiang accidentally triggered the automatic commenting feature “猜你想评” (what you might want to comment).

This explanation made Jiang feel powerless: “My account inexplicably says things I don’t even want to say, things I didn’t plan to post. If it weren’t for the blogger replying this time, I wouldn’t have known at all. As a user, even if I know I didn’t do it, it’s hard for me to prove it. In the end, the matter came to nothing.”

Even more bizarrely, the reporter found that if users want to check their own notebook’s留言 comments, they can only go through the browsing history one by one in “recently viewed,” and then check in the comments section—basically “needle in a haystack.”

Your account might also be

“secretly making friends, playing rank matches”

The “ghost comments” on life services platforms are still just the tip of the iceberg. Abnormal activities on accounts across major platforms have led netizens to say, “The more you think about it, the more terrifying it gets.”

One netizen said that on Book—something—your account also seems to “quietly” follow other people’s accounts. “Every time, some totally random bloggers suddenly appear in my following list. A few days ago, I cleared my entire following list—no one at all. And yet somehow, it secretly added someone back to me.”

This can’t be explained by “accidental touches” anymore

It’s more like the platform is forcibly doing social actions on behalf of users

Many netizens also commented

that they had similar experiences

A certain popular mobile game

There are also many players questioning

whether the game app is secretly using their accounts

to act as bots and play rank matches?

You might not have logged in at all, but your account is “fighting to the death” in the arena. Has the account turned into “free labor” for maintaining game activity?

Another netizen shared that a certain short-video platform sometimes even arbitrarily controls users’ accounts, sharing videos with people they follow—but the reality is that they don’t use it at all in their day-to-day life.

From automatic comments, to automatically secretly following, and then to inexplicable sharing—this string of “sneaky operations” where they’re treated as bots seems to be completely out of users’ 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 situation is allowed to continue, will the future online world become the “self-entertainment” of AI robots? The voices of real users would be drowned out instead. This kind of “fake interaction” not only seriously worsens the user experience, but also makes platforms lose the value of real traffic.

Moreover, once there’s a security loophole in the platform’s “platform-level” permission controls, sensitive data such as users’ account information and consumption records could be exposed to the risk of leakage—this is the most terrifying hidden danger.

Have any of you encountered similar situations?

What do you think about it?

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