Indians send millions of ‘Good Morning’ messages on Facebook, WhatsApp and its clogging the Internet!

One in three smartphone users in India run out of space on their phones daily. The reason? “Good Morning”.

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Google researchers in Silicon Valley were trying to figure out why so many smartphones were freezing up half a world away. The glitch was an overabundance of “sun-dappled flowers, adorable toddlers, birds and sunsets sent along with a cheery message.”

Such messages have driven a 10-fold increase in the number of Google searches for “Good Morning images” over the past five years. In fact, WhatsApp also added a status feature last year, so that people could just update their status and not send out individual messages. Additionally, Pinterest added a new section, just to display images with quotes. The report stated that the platform saw a 9-fold increase over the past year in the number of Indians downloading such pictures.

Interestingly, Google also introduced an app called Files Go, which scans through your phone gallery to highlight the ‘Good Morning’ messages, and delete them instantly.

Files Go helps you:

Free up space. Get personalized suggestions about which files to delete, whether it's unused apps, large files, duplicate files or low-resolution videos and memes detected using Google's latest mobile vision technology.

Find files faster. No more navigating through a maze of folders. Find exactly the stuff you want with smart filters that automatically organize your images, videos, apps, documents and more.

Backup files to the cloud. If you want to keep a file forever, select it from the Files menu and back it up to Google Drive or any other cloud storage app.

Share files offline. Transfer directly from your phone to a nearby friend's phone without using any data. The file transfers are encrypted, fast (up to 125 Mbps) and free.