EguabsInspired!»Blackberry Broadcast Messages!

Hi peeps!Wow! This has been in the pipeline for sometime now. I was pondering if i should talk about this or just ignore and push down the lump growing inside my throat but i decided to just say something about people who have nothing else to do on their Blackberry phones but send dumb broadcast messages! Jeez! For crying out loud we just came out from the annoying broadcast of Chidinma(can anybody remember that story?)You know....about the girl who was assumed to be dying in a hospital and confessed to collecting huge sums of money from men for sex and after she was through,she chewed and swallowed the sim cards of these men?....hello ooo;i know you guys remember sha. Anyway i was so upset with that message. I got it like a hundred times that day. It was so annoying!!! Just when i was about to let my anger slide,people came up with the date scam! They said nobody should pick calls from a certain number(110911) and that 8 people have been reported dead already! I was sceptical and dint even bother myself! I got that message so many times to the extent i had to switch my phone to silent mood! Na wetin o, Nigerians!!! To top up the day my mum called me from another state o! That
there was a number going round and if you received a call from the number,you die! Hahahahahahahahaha it was so hilarious but i couldn't laugh least she felt i didn't take her serious or she sees me as disrespectful! I told her i already heard and thanked her! My hubby and i had a good laugh that night!Jeez! I was like;even my mum called???? What on earth is happening? It was just that days date and nothing more!someone somewhere(stupid but smart)pulled a stunt on us all and we took it with a pinch of salt;line,hook and sinker!ℓ☺ℓ...anyway,i called my mum some days later to tell her what it was all about and she had a good laugh!
That been said,i turned my phone on this lovely morning(i always turn it off because i still find it hard to believe people still make midnight calls! Calls during the day are so cheap now and almost free and yet...puleeeeeeezzzzzeeee*sigh*like i was saying before i was interrupted by that thought;(eyes rolling)i turned on my phone and whoops,what did i see?BBM was working and people where already sending dumb and annoying broadcast messages to tell me to broadcast a certain message so my blackberry can work again! I can't recap the messages but believe me it was annoying,irritating,disgusting to see literate people doing this!
Don't people have a browser on their phone? why not google informations before passing it on? Go online and check if the message you got is true before telling 100 other people! RIM had issues and that's why the service was down and it was resolved that's why it came back on! Simple!People please learn to confirm infos before broadcast please!
Another annoying one is changing status messages to RIP when the person in context ain't dead at all and alive! For example Beyonce Knowles,Nelson Mandela! People killed them with their Blackberry!
Abeg make una confirm things before spreading o!
Its no shock to me that RIM had issues because 9ja alone can crash them with their trouble!
Please let us learn to always verify informations before talking about it or broadcasting it on BB!
*Whew*its off my chest now at least and i hope we have learnt a few things from this post! So,see you all soon! It might be later today,tomorrow morning or even midnight! So stay put and remain blessed!
Cheerio!!!!