Ingredients of our school WhatsApp group:

- Do you know the ingredients of our school WhatsApp group. The school WhatsApp group is a very special group it has kept our early life history together. Its a very special group.

Below are the types of creative members in school WhatsApp group.

Relentless Forwarder: who spends all day forwarding things – jokes, news articles, conspiracy theories, fake news. The Relentless Forwarder forwards, and having forwarded moves on.

Lurker: rarely posts but reads everything and occasionally pops up to say “Happy Birthday”.

The Silent One: has the group on mute and only checks it when stuck in traffic in an Uber or sitting in the toilet.

The Cheerleader: is usually the most affable member. That’s the gung-ho person who keeps trying to rally the troops and organise a get-together.

Shit Stirrer: whose goal it is to needle someone and stir up controversy just because things are getting boring.

Group Bore: who posts long pedantic messages, which no one has time to read.

The Head Hunter: goes to extraordinary lengths to track down long-lost schoolmates and add them to the group even as the rest of the group wonders who’s that guy.

Arsonist: His job is to lob fireballs into the group, usually in the form of such way-out paranoid conspiracy theories, you wonder whether you really all went to the same school together.

After looking at all these varieties we all have become, we realise, we went to the same school, but we certainly all went to different directions in life and different WhatsApp universities.

It’s as if we had scattered all over the world and then suddenly the WhatsApp group had found us and sucked us all back into a classroom except we no longer fit behind our desks.

The issue is that if you call your (so-called) school friend ‘a fool” (in a light vein) for having a ludicrous opinion, your (so called) friend will NOT take it lightly anymore just like the old school days. You can sense rigidity on both sides. People easily get hurt with age, and the group dynamics is a catalyst (putting one on the defensive and the fragile ego cannot take it). Honestly, that is NO fun once you are in a life university. abey gadhe!!), no more holds the same meaning, value and expression it used to hold in school.

School WhatsApp group is like a new school in itself with lot of sharing of likes, dislikes and opinions. It is very different from other groups, usually groups are bound together by a common interest. Where as school group is bound together by a common history, a history that certainly defined us, but still a very old history. We called ourselves Friends Forever, but unlike most friends, we have little in common other than a school tie. That's where we are now after a long journey of our lives.

Source: the above thoughts are collected from internet sources and edited by our Blog.

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