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That's not how it works. These kids didn't create the stigma for the green bubble. Popular culture did, big-money TV, movie and music productions did, and teens
by asclepi 7y ago
That's not how it works. These kids didn't create the stigma for the green bubble. Popular culture did, big-money TV, movie and music productions did, and teens are the most susceptible.
Try finding a recent US-produced music video or hit movie/TV series that shows a green bubble (or Android for that matter, as it still has a higher market share).
- damnyou 7y agoYes, as I said, the kids are just picking up patterns from adults. Ultimately this is a larger societal problem of exclusion. America has taken it to its extreme, with racial segregation, redlining and the prison industrial complex. This iMessage nonsense is just a small and relatively benign symptom of the fundamental problem with America. As a left-libertarian who believes in inclusion, I'm sure not going to encourage this with my own kids.
- Terretta 7y agoPlus, by ensuring your kids use SMS instead of iMessage, you can be assured of your own ‘inclusion’ in their text chat logs through the cell carrier’s parental log.
- viraptor 7y agoNon-imessage doesn't mean SMS. There's lots of e2e solutions that work cross-platform.
- axaxs 7y agoYou can't seriously be comparing iMessage usage to racial segregation. I refuse to believe this is a real comment.
- damnyou 7y agoI very specifically said that iMessage is a small example of a general pattern of exclusion. (But yeah, people of color are less likely to use iPhones. I thought this was well known.)