Stop forwarding a forward to stop going backward
Since the advent of Whattsapp and the proliferation of a concept called
“forwarding a forward”, I have my serious doubts that this may be taking the
intelligent human race “backwards” and literally so. The concept of sending Short
Mobile Messages called SMS, before the advent of the Forward, brought in a
major change in the writing skills of the generation and a new concept of throwing
the formal spellings and formal sentence structure out of the window. The trend
was so popular that even the classic believers of preserving sanity in the use of
English language were found making a vain attempt at emulating the abbreviated,
broken, mutilated form of SMS lingo to stay Updated and happening in front of
the young.
The Whatsapp University, so to say, has been churning out graduates, post
graduates and doctorates in the specialization of Forwards. People who forward
tens of received forwards that they come across in the hundreds of groups that
they subscribe to, behave in a pseudo intelligent manner as if by forwarding the
forward they have achieved a major feat of intelligence.
This is leading to pseudo intellectualism and causing a major harm to an individual
who is losing sight of logical and analytical thinking and somehow believes that a
forward that is forwarded is perhaps his/her intellectual achievement. If this trend
continues unabated, I am afraid it is going to produce a generation that would be
deprived of a major portion of its intellectual prowess and the whole process is
likely to lead to disaster.
Stop forwarding a forward to stop going backward
