So we have all at one time or the other been assailed with broadcast messages telling how someone is in dire need (of what??) And we as recipients are expected to (what? Re-broadcast?). Here is a sample I got this morning:
A CALL FOR HELP !!!
A lady going to Onitsha from Abuja in PEACE mass transit is in a local hospital in Okene area.....the driver was persuaded to take her to a nearby hospital as she was vomiting blood which led to her collapse...An OKO POLY ID card in her bag says she is a member of enugu ukwu student ass. and with the name CHINENYE V. OKONKWO. Am on my knees SHARE THIS please

I normally ignore these but I stopped for a second to think...how exactly am I supposed to help this (these) person(s)? Does re-broadcasting ever really help? Have you witnessed or even heard of any account of one being helped by broadcast messages? I mean, aren't the chances of someone knowing the victim thinner than a strand of cobweb? Nairalanders, over to you.

I think it does. It might eventually get to her colleagues, friend, family friend(s) etc.

I don't send though coz I hate receiving it.

There are too many BBm users to help RE-BC.
Some people do not even read the damn thing, they just mark all their contacts and resend. Most are recycled.

^^^ exactly! I absolutely hate receiving them and do not even bother to re-send. I wonder if it has ever helped someone, somewhere I mean I get bcs about an accident that has just occured somewhere in the south-west while I'm in the south-east...how exactly does my bc help?

I have seen someone with over 2000 contacts, I believe there are people from different regions of the country amongst them. Should that kinda person send a BC, and just one person from south west re-bcs it. I believe that's all it needs to get across to them so it does help.

Personally, I haven't come across anyone who got help from a BC sha. Maybe some other nairalanders have. Let's wait for them to confirm.

Wow that's quite a number. Assuming such person isn't too busy to send a bc...

He's a DJ, he keeps sending one rubbish after the other.

Lol I would prolly delete him, I can stand only so many bcs

Well He's just one of those peeps you can't delete.