The present review summarizes the literature on this topic with a focus on the motives to engage in using the app and potential detrimental effects of excessive use. Although WeChat has become an integral part of everyday life for many users, research has only recently begun to examine the impact of this development on the societal and individual levels. Against this background, the present review aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview on the functionality of this application, comparison with other popular applications such as Facebook/WhatsApp and previous research. Despite its enormous number of users in Asia, WeChat is still not well known in Western countries. With currently over one billion monthly active users, the Chinese social media and multipurpose application WeChat (, Wēixìn, micro-message) has become one of the world’s most popular social media platforms. 3School of Information Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.2neuSCAN Laboratory, The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.1Molecular Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. Christian Montag 1,2* Benjamin Becker 2 Chunmei Gan 3*
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