For those who don’t know:
Texts from iPhone to iPhone appear as blue bubbles, while texts from Android users appear as green.
For many in the US who still use SMS to communicate, the blue/green bubble divide is a huge source of social conflict.
What’s your version of “If everyone knew this was a thing in my country, they’d think it was silly”?
Are there people who really view it as a social division? I’ve never met anyone who seriously thinks that.
You probably don’t interact with a lot of teens then. It’s pretty common in high schools and college campuses. I was told a decade ago that my green bubbles were probably why women stopped texting me after I got their number off okcupid
my green bubbles were probably why women stopped texting me after I got their number off okcupid
Bullet dodged
Oh, OKC used to rock a decade ago. Before they started the monitization efforts they had over a thousand questions that you could pre-sort matches based off of their importance to both of you. There wasn’t swiping, you just actually looked at profiles. It really rewarded writing good profiles which I happen to do well
If someone is turning you down because of some stupid Apple-manufactured social status, you deserve better than them
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Fwiw, my partner and I met on OkC 5 years ago. It used to be so much better. I got really high one day and answered like a thousand questions, which got me really accurate match percentages. Shame it’s trash now.
Oh, honey, that wasn’t why…
It was, I got laid plenty in college. I meant I would get a woman’s number, text her, then she would give 2/3 responses and disappear. It stopped almost entirely when I switched to asking for Snapchat instead
Too bad we can’t completely isolate the variables.
As someone with basic knowledge of what it’s doing, I find it important to distinguish encrypted from unencrypted communications
When Apple catches up to Android and figures out how to encrypt RCS texts, then both “bubble colours” will be encrypted communications
Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!
The “Blue” vs. “Green” Bubble War is Insane.
Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble
Grace Fang, 20-years-old, said she too saw such social dynamics among her peers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. “I’ve had people with Androids apologize that they have Androids and don’t have iMessage,” she said. “I don’t know if it’s Apple propaganda or just like a tribal in-group versus out-group thing going on, but people don’t seem to like green text bubbles that much and seem to have this visceral negative reaction to it.” Ms. Fang added that she finds the hubbub silly and that she prefers to avoid texting all together.
‘I’ve had people with Androids apologize that they have Androids and don’t have iMessage,” said Grace Fang.
Jocelyn Maher, a 24-year-old master’s student in upstate New York, said her friends and younger sister have mocked her for exchanging texts with potential paramours using Android phones. “I was like,
Oh my gosh, his texts are green,’ and my sister literally went,Ew that’s gross,’” Ms. Maher said.She noted that she once successfully persuaded a boyfriend to switch to an iPhone after some gentle badgering. Their relationship didn’t last.
Such interactions have made fertile ground for memes on social media. During the pandemic, Jeremy Cangiano, who just finished up his MBA at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, dealt with his boredom on TikTok, quickly noticing that blue-bubble-green-bubble memes were popular among young people. He tried to cash in on it last year by selling his own merchandise that touted, “Never Date a Green Texter.”
I’ve seen so many articles n this but still have a problem believing it’s real. I still think it’s a made up fad by journalists and no one really cares. That would be silly.
When I asked my teens the answer was “no one uses iMessages and that’s not relevant on Insta”
To the extent that this exists at all, it’s basically functioning as a proxy for SES and knowledge of appropriate SES signaling. I’m sure Apple is very happy about it, but it doesnt imply that Apple has some sort of marketing campaign for it. People naturally sort themselves along SES lines.
I mean, you can make a video about anything. That doesn’t make it real.
You asked a legitimate question, and I provided three sources describing the phenomenon.
Just because you haven’t experienced it personally (or met people who have) doesn’t mean it’s not real, either.
Plenty of people haven’t met a gay or trans person in their life, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist or that issues they face should be dismissed out of hand.
Dismissing the question doesn’t add to the conversation. If you don’t want to engage with the question, that’s fine. Don’t comment. Just downvote and move on.
Unfortunately they’re on Blahaj, so they’ve never gotten the downvote message that they’re dumb.
You can always write a comment and say, “you’re dumb!”
People doing ski slopes in the cheese. Some people don’t care, some get angry.
In Sweden we buy large hard cheeses and use the Norwegian cheese slicer
to get thin slices for our bread. Surely a superior way of eating cheese on bread. Anyhow, if you apply the pressure wrong you will deform the cheese into a ski slope shape over time
Some people are unbothered by this, which is completely insane.
Scone / scone.
Football (soccer) teams? I guess that’s a common one, but people can get really violent about it over here, lol. We’re all here enjoying football, something we all love (well, not me, but I’m getting in the mindset of those who do), there’s barely any disagreement between us! 🙄🙃
Rangers v Celtic?
No, more like “City F.C.” v “City United”, lol.
the blue/green bubble divide is a huge source of social conflict.
I live in the US.
Wat
do you chat by sms? are you ok?
