In plain English
This means passing along a message that already came to you. The message is then sent to another person or to a group.
In context
Here, it labels the action of sending a received chat message on to another recipient.
- Situation
- Using messages, follows, connections, groups, communities, and interaction controls
- What it communicates
- Labels the action for sending an existing chat message to another recipient.
Meaning limits
The term by itself does not say whether the message is altered before it is sent on.
Examples
“After Mia received the schedule change, she forwarded the message to the weekend staff.”
“The moderator asked Lina to forward the message from the class chat to Omar.”