As a counterpoint to everyone saying they've never heard of anyone caring about the bubbles; back when I was in college my fraternity sent out big group message

As a counterpoint to everyone saying they've never heard of anyone caring about the bubbles; back when I was in college my fraternity sent out big group messages via iMessage only. If you wanted to know about events and didn't have an iPhone, you needed to check your email or hear about it second hand. No one wanted to deal with broken MMS, formatting, etc, so that's how things were handled. Some folks with Android phones were annoyed, but the official stance is that your email should be the place you check for this stuff anyways.