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> Your child is not you. If your child thinks FOSS is cool, it's cool. If they think it is lame, you are being lame. Yup, don't turn them into a pariah due to
by zamalek 3y ago
> Your child is not you. If your child thinks FOSS is cool, it's cool. If they think it is lame, you are being lame.
Yup, don't turn them into a pariah due to the color of chat bubbles (not having iPhone-colored bubbles was recently a major social problem for American teenagers). The color of a bubble might seem stupid to someone dealing with the issues of the adult world, but social issues is basically/hopefully the extent of problems that kids face.
That being said, parents have been successfully imparting values to their children for millennia. If you believe that using FOSS is important (I happen to agree) then you should have no issues convincing your child the same. Maybe they'll end up using Linux on their laptop, while prioritizing the color of chat bubbles on their phones. You can only give them the tools and knowledge to make the right choices, you can't make choices for them.
- jamilton 3y agoI don't know if I would say it's a "major social problem", more like a mild negative. Some teenagers primarily use Snapchat, Instagram, or Facebook Messenger. And outside of the US Whatsapp is very common. All these get around the chat bubble color issue.
- rcbdev 3y agoI couldn't find anything on this online. Why would you need to change the theme of a chat application as a kid in the United States? Sorry if I am missing something painfully obvious here.
- sumeno 3y agoOn iPhones iMessages are blue, but text messages (from non-ios devices) are green and lack some of the features of iMessages, so being green is looked down upon
- awelxtr 3y agoHave a read: https://archive.ph/RJ7bl https://archive.ph/RJ7bl it is an article of the wall street journal from last year that explains this pretty well