Good morning messages sent by Indians filling up internet, big part of this is also PM Modi

Hyderabad: Has your smartphone freezing up lately? Well you’re not alone. Research revealed that one in three smartphone users in India run out of space every day. And when Google researchers in Silicon Valley were trying to figure out the reason behind and the answer is Indians wishing each other good morning. According to The […]

Hyderabad: Has your smartphone freezing up lately? Well you’re not alone. Research revealed that one in three smartphone users in India run out of space every day. And when Google researchers in Silicon Valley were trying to figure out the reason behind and the answer is Indians wishing each other good morning.

According to The Wall Street Journal, millions of good morning texts, large quantities of photos, GIFs, forwarded messages and videos are clogging up Indian phones and wreaking havoc on the world internet. It is apparently making people in the Silicon Valley scratch their heads.

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It is well known that greeting messages are some of the most forwarded media on WhatsApp.

Scores of senior citizens from India are getting online for the first time in their lives. It is found that this good cheer has caused a 10-fold increase in the number of Google searches for ‘Good Morning images’ in the past five years. There has also been a nine-fold increase in people downloading such images in India.

According to the report, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi too plays a big role in creating this traffic jam on the internet.

“Perhaps India’s most famous morning-message enthusiast is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He gets up at 5 a.m. to practice yoga and is known to fire off good-morning messages as the sun is rising. Last year, he admonished a group of lawmakers for not responding to his greetings”, the report said.

Google, using its giant image database and artificial-intelligence tools, launched a new app called Files Go that highlights files for possible deletion with a special feature to search out and delete all good-morning messages at once.  

According to the company, the app has more than 10 million downloads so far, with more users in India than any other country. It has cleared up on average more than 1 gigabyte of data per user.

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