>If someone thinks less of me or won't communicate with me because of something as meaningless as the color of my messages on their phone, then that person isn'

>If someone thinks less of me or won't communicate with me because of something as meaningless as the color of my messages on their phone, then that person isn't worth my time to begin with. It's not about the colour of the message, it's what it signifies: this is an insecure conversation that is not end-to-end encrypted. To me it signals "switch to whatsapp/signal" Today green means SMS, which also means that deliverability can be unreliable (in the past I've seen SMSes send and never arrive, arrive multiple times, or arrive hours late), and delivery notification is limited and unreliable. Same with tapbacks, and that voice/image/video involves MMS (which is bad, and in many countries carries per-message fees). P.S. the incoming message bubble is black-on-grey, the same as all incoming messages no matter the medium - it's unencrypted outgoing messages that get a green bubble