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I don’t really understand why people keep referring to the text bubble color here. "Teens and college students said they dread the ostracism that comes with a
by everdrive 5y ago
I don’t really understand why people keep referring to the text bubble color here.
"Teens and college students said they dread the ostracism that comes with a green text. The social pressure is palpable, with some reporting being ostracized or singled out after switching away from iPhones."
Why is text color an issue? Or, is it just a stand in for referring to the different apps?
- sylens 5y agoIt’s more about the what the color of the bubble symbolizes. When you see a green bubble, you know you are losing features when communicating with this person - the nice link previews, the reactions to individual messages, threading, mentions, and various other iMessage tie-ins that people have. In a one-on-one conversation, it’s not the biggest deal…but in a group text it is a massive loss of functionality, enough to make people set up separate group texts with only iPhone users to restore the lost functionality when they don’t need to message the non-iPhone users.
- alimov 5y agoFYI you don’t lose reactions to messages.