What's your country's version of the blue/green bubble?
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.
As someone with basic knowledge of what it’s doing, I find it important to distinguish encrypted from unencrypted communications
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
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.
my green bubbles were probably why women stopped texting me after I got their number off okcupid
Bullet dodged
Oh, honey, that wasn't why...
Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!
The "Blue" vs. "Green" Bubble War is Insane.
::: spoiler 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”
I mean, you can make a video about anything. That doesn't make it real.
Scone / scone.
Care to elaborate for non-British/Irish people?
Scone should be pronounced scone and not scone.
In some parts of the country, it's pronounced to rhyme with cone, and in other parts it's pronounce to rhyme with gone. That would be simple but there is another orthognal dimension which is a demographic one (usually self-perceived class) which also influences the pronunciation.
It is, consequently, almost impossible to guess how any given person you meet might pronounce the word. And it is also something which, while seeming incredibly trivial, people here feel very strongly about.
I, of course, pronounce it correctly: scone.
do you chat by sms? are you ok?
I am from Germany and what brand of car your are driving is often seen as a statement, often associated with a certain social group.
Although I have observed that this has been constantly diminishing over the years.
German, too. I don't own a car, but is this whole EV vs. combustion still as big a thing as it was 7 years ago? I feel it was a much bigger discussion here due to our car tradition/ obsession than in the US. Elon is a dipshit, and until that was apperent to everyone, EVs were cool due to Tesla
Has it ever been?
I mean, outside of some mostly right-wing bubbles that are trying to exaggerate it as some kind of oppression symbol in a cultural war that happens mainly in their heads?
Most people I know treat the topic from a rather rational perspective regarding the pros and cons of EVs in their specific situations.
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.
its not really a thing in the us. never been a thing with me or my friends and im pretty sure this is one of those things where it came up but then was blown out of proportion where most everyone never really cared about it.
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.