30. The Power of Three

Class Teaching (Social Media Usage, Paper IV – Fundamentals of Chatting)

“Everybody on WhatsApp gets flooded with well-wishers’ forwards on special days like new year, Christmas, Diwali, Independence Day etc. It is often a challenge to reply accordingly.

“You have to make sure that you do not send the same message back to the person who had sent it to you. Also, you have to see that you do not repeat a message from somebody else in a group. And you have to send some messages not as a reply but as a first wish as well.

“What you need is basically a systematic and methodic way. That is what I will show you now.

“First make a table like the one on board.”

On the board:

Name of sender (A)	Message (B)	The Power of Three (C)	Recipients (D)	Status (E)

“In A write the names of the people who have sent you forwards. Include groups as well.

“Write a keyword to identify the message in B. E.g. blue butterfly, stars and candles, Snoopy etc.

“Select any three from among all the messages. Write down in C. Ignore the others from now on.

“Write down in D the names of people you want to send these three messages to. See to it that the sender does not become a recipient.

“When you have sent the message to all recipients listed in D, put a tick mark in E. It means done.

“Do this twice for very special days with lots of forwards. Once at around 1 pm and once at around 10 pm.

“Please note that this is not applicable for your birthday.”