Whatsapp has been a popular media for people to be in touch and exchange important messages.
But the current lockdown situation, the media has been taken over by users with plenty of time in hand.
And it’s important to be in touch with friends and family and whatsapp with it’s super efficient chat, free voice and video calls is the best media to go for.
However, we see a competition going on in forwarding various types of messages in Whatsapp groups. They are mostly forwards received from unknown sources, some genuine, few important and some untruth and also there could be malicious rumours.
The charm is lost and a good media is killed. As I am writing this, there’s news that Whatsapp is taking some counter measures restricting free forwards. I hope genuine users will be spared.
When social media becomes the source of communication and news have become biased definitely the distance among people will increase. To sort things it’s important to talk face to face but when anger and thoughts are in the form of virtual nothing good can be excepted until the balance of usage of technology is made.
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Very well put. Thank you
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WA is the main source of information even to the poor and uneducated including migrants. In these terrible times, the wrong info can cost much….some restrictions are needed regarding forwards is what I personally think.
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You are absolutely right Mridula. Thank you
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