Silicon Valley: Researchers at tech giant Google in Silicon Valley were trying to find out why smartphones were freezing up half a world away. One in three smartphone users in India were running out of space on their phones daily, according to Wall Street Journal.
The answer to the problem was “Good Morning!” The glitch, Google found, was an abundance of cheery messages.
Indians, getting online for the first time, were beginning the day by sending greetings from their phones.
Starting before sunrise and reaching a crescendo before 8 am, internet newbies posted millions of good-morning.
All that good cheer is driving a 10-fold increase in the number of Google searches for “Good Morning images” over the past five years.
Pinterest added a new section to display images with quotes. It saw a ninefold rise over the past year in Indians downloading such pictures.
Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service market—added a status message last year so users could say good morning to all of their contacts at once.
