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Thanks to the pervasiveness of Smartphone that provide the platforms for those IM applications,the usage of these IM applications over mobile phone has grown very fast in recent years.This paper presents the results of an exploratory user study to evaluate WeChat,a popular mobile application that combined communication and social networking in China.The research objective underlying this study sought to understand how young users,accustomed to using other communication app i.e.,WhatsApp,to communicate with friends using WeChat.Empirical data for this study was collected via an integrated user study.The results of this study have significant theoretical and practical implications for researchers and developers of user behavior toward different mobile communication and social networking applications.