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Apparently it's very important to not be a "green bubble bitch" in the dating sphere. I don't know why the assumption is that if you have an Android, you're bro

Apparently it's very important to not be a "green bubble bitch" in the dating sphere. I don't know why the assumption is that if you have an Android, you're broke, but I have heard women say unironically that a green bubble is a red flag for their safety. As an Android user, I'm happy to not be in the dating market.

MerelyMortal 5y ago
They can use that filter all they want. It's less filtering I will have to do, to not date shallow people.
- CameronNemo 5y ago
  What about when you meet someone you like, but her friends are all telling her you are trouble because of the green bubbles.
  - MerelyMortal 5y ago
    Same thing. If she can be swayed by such a petty thing, then I'm glad she filtered herself out rather than me wasting time and money to find out later that she's easily swayed by petty things and is a bad judge of character (keeping terrible friends). The people that are willing to filter me out are exactly the people I don't want to date.
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behnamoh 5y ago
Actually that's even better, you can automatically filter out shallow people ;)
smabie 5y ago
I've heard this from multiple tinder dates as well. It's somewhat stupid and shallow but I get it. Everytime I see a green bubble I consciously notice and for whatever reason slightly disapprove. Does this make me shallow and stupid? Yes, probably, but it is what it s.
- dwaite 5y ago
  > Does this make me shallow and stupid? No. In the dating sphere, people have a thousand things that go into their preference. If someone living a 25 minute drive away can be a deal-breaker, having them sometimes not get your message asking if they want to go do something can be too. The problem is that the choices are entirely in between proprietary systems, or a system like SMS which has a bunch of crappy behavior, or the new contender RCS which is kinda both. (missing arguably essential privacy features, still isn't really deployed as a standard since Google is running all of the infrastructure rather than carriers). So we have no clear winner; instead we have tribes. Any time two tribes have to fall back to SMS it is going to be miserable.

MerelyMortal 5y ago

They can use that filter all they want. It's less filtering I will have to do, to not date shallow people.

CameronNemo 5y ago
What about when you meet someone you like, but her friends are all telling her you are trouble because of the green bubbles.
- MerelyMortal 5y ago
  Same thing. If she can be swayed by such a petty thing, then I'm glad she filtered herself out rather than me wasting time and money to find out later that she's easily swayed by petty things and is a bad judge of character (keeping terrible friends). The people that are willing to filter me out are exactly the people I don't want to date.
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behnamoh 5y ago

Actually that's even better, you can automatically filter out shallow people ;)

smabie 5y ago

I've heard this from multiple tinder dates as well. It's somewhat stupid and shallow but I get it. Everytime I see a green bubble I consciously notice and for whatever reason slightly disapprove. Does this make me shallow and stupid? Yes, probably, but it is what it s.

dwaite 5y ago
> Does this make me shallow and stupid? No. In the dating sphere, people have a thousand things that go into their preference. If someone living a 25 minute drive away can be a deal-breaker, having them sometimes not get your message asking if they want to go do something can be too. The problem is that the choices are entirely in between proprietary systems, or a system like SMS which has a bunch of crappy behavior, or the new contender RCS which is kinda both. (missing arguably essential privacy features, still isn't really deployed as a standard since Google is running all of the infrastructure rather than carriers). So we have no clear winner; instead we have tribes. Any time two tribes have to fall back to SMS it is going to be miserable.