WhatsApp is probably the most widely used social media platform in India. The older generation, might not be so well-versed with Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, but everybody knows WhatsApp in and out.
These pictures look familiar?
We use it more for sending forwards than actual communication, but that’s fine as long as everyone is happy.
Remember the time when Indians constituted for 20 billion WhatsApp messages that were sent out on new year’s eve? Well, we’ve made it to the news again.
Turns out, that those various, ‘Family’ groups and multiple other groups which are made for no apparent reason but we are forced to be a part of, is affecting not just us, but the internet in general.
As per a report by The Wall Street Journal, the internet is filling up faster each day because of the billions of ‘good morning’ messages people send to their friends, family and strangers on WhatsApp every day.
The picture platform, Pinterest, saw an unbelievable increase in the number of downloads by Indians after it introduced a category of pictures with quotes on it, AKA the Good morning messages with quotes. Moreover, there has been a 10-fold increase in the number of ‘good morning images’ search on Google over the last 5 years.
We know that even before the sun rises we get Good Morning messages and related to that about a million messages are shared by people across the country.
The issue became so widespread that Google introduced a solution in the form an application. Files Go by Google, introduced in New Delhi in December, provides a feature to delete all ‘good morning’ images from the phone.
Now we have Google making special apps to help us clear our phone’s storage of all the useless good morning texts. Indians are definitely going to change the world and they indeed have started to!