Some may say this a sign that people have become less caring about their near and dear ones, but we should see this development as a time- and energy-saving exercise granted by the information age.

This might have been true in the industrial age, but not in this information age.

We live in the information age, yet we do nothing with it.

Officials at China's information ministry didn't respond to requests for comment.

China talks of “winning informationised wars by the mid-21st century”.