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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    1 year ago

    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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        1 year ago

        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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            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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          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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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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.