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?

  • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, us Americans never really moved away from SMS. I think probably BlackBerry messenger, back in the day, was probably the closest we came to having a messenger replace standard mobile texting along with Facebook Messenger and Insta DMs are pretty popular but never as used as plain old texting. Lately, I’ve seen Meta running ads stateside for WhatsApp. It’s weird because I’ve never seen them advertise anything before.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, BBM was popular with my american contacts back in Blackberry days. What a cumbersome goddamn messenger with the PIN and everything.

      That was my favorite Whatsapp feature, not having to ‘add’ anyone. My friends’ users were just their phone numbers. If it weren’t for Meta buying it, it wouldn’t have the bad rep it has lately.