I have more than 200 WhatsApp Contacts, 2000 Facebook friends and
1000 Google Plus Followers. And guess what, 99% of these people claim
themselves to be educated. People who work as managers, techies, software
engineers, etc. send me stupid forwards which really make me go mad.
WhatsApp groups, social networks, all these were created for
a good cause, I believe. Some 6 months back, there were stupid messages
regarding WhatsApp. Someone said Aarohi Deshmukh was the founder, and our
clever souls forwarded it. There is so much false news around, and I agree that
it is not easy to find out, but some things can easily be researched.
The common mentality of Indians (sorry
to be harsh) these days is to blindly forward whatever message comes to them, without even
spending a FEW seconds to research the facts. Recently, there was this message
about a swine flu medicine from Himalaya.
The moment I got it, I opened the
Himalaya website, and wham, here came the message.
It is indeed very sad that most
of the people who sent these messages have a very good level of education (one
of them was supposed to be pursuing his PhD). If there was a medicine for swine
flu, the company would have hung a banner for each street in the city.
Sadly, most of us fail to explore
things even if it is the smallest. I personally sent a message to all these
people to research the facts before sending, but some of them replied “You
research first. What you are saying is wrong”. Well, I may be wrong, but the
official website of the company will not be.
If you are reading this, please
understand. One false message is forwarded to 10 people. That goes to 100,
1000, lakhs, crores and so on. People are stupid enough to go to a medical shop,
get the medicine and drink it. Why not, if you are stupid enough to forward it?
Please check for something before forwarding. If it is true, then please
proceed. It might be a small forward for you, but it is a big deal. I keep
telling this to people, but no one seems to do it. I just get annoyed with
these forwards. If you claim yourself to be educated, how on earth are you able
to do this? Just read something and forward it?
It is high time we open our eyes
and look for the real truth. There is Google in the home screen of your
smartphone. It will take only seconds to find the truth. If you do not want to
spend a few seconds, then you are ignorant. You are an irresponsible citizen. Please
stop propagating false news on social media. Do a little research! And instead of sharing them,
please share this post.
Totally agreed... Nowadays i dont evn bother correcting my friends or relatives who forward such stuff. Many a times people get offended when we point these things out to them.
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