I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

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    It’s bewildering to me how this continues to be an issue only in the US, the rest of the world figured out this problem around 2010, and I’m not kidding. It’s like you guys are still arguing about Beta vs VHS in 2023

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      It’s so exclusive to the US that I didn’t even understand what OP was saying before reading the comment section for clues.

      Blue bubbles, green bubbles? Wtf is that and how is it related to Android/iOS.

      For reference, I live in South East Asia and use Android, but I have never heard my friends using iOS complain about some kinda bubble colour.

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        I live in the US and I had no idea what the OP was talking about. I am in the same boat as you with the blue vs green bubbles thing (but now I know thanks to the comments) and am also an android user. I was today years old when I found out I apparently send green bubbles to iPhones.

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          Why are you guys texting? Don’t you have WhatsApp or Telegram?

          I haven’t sent an SMS since 2012. What is going on in the US?

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            I think US carriers moved primarily to “unlimited text” before smart phones were the standard. It’s just momentum and many people to l don’t have any reason to switch.

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              Don’t you guys get like an incredible amount of spam via SMS? It became kinda like email but worse.

              I can’t block the short numbers companies use to send SMS because they are usually using a third party SMS service. So, different companies can send messages that arrive with the same number. If I block an SMS ad, I might be also blocking an important SMS alert from my bank warning some security issue.

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                really spam texts i don’t remember getting many of those. i do get auto text for things like deliveries and check deposits but not spam

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        Can you ELI5? I’m reading the comments and still not comprehending what’s going on here.

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          I think the SMS app on iPhone marks messages sent from an iPhone as blue, and the rest are marked as green.

          OP is saying that their iPhone-using friends judge people by the colour of messages. Which is idiotic and completely unheard of over here in my country.