Other Dear iPhone users: Please don’t forget that a green bubble is a person.[Article]

[macintoshmac]

Just another avenue to feel superior and feed their own inferiority complex.

All over the world, we have just two apps that people love to use to communicate with each other - WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger - including in nations with predominantly iPhone-users. It's a sad reflection on our value-systems and the need to feed that air of superiority over others that there even exists an issue of a green bubble to the extent that it does.

People are free to use whichever operating system they choose to use. macOS can run circles around Windows in some aspects whereas Windows will decimate macOS in many others. Can't say one is superior over the other. Same goes for Android and iOS. It's simply a matter of which OS suits their needs better. It is a personal choice that people have the right to exercise. People also have the right to express - and a section of society uses it to express unwarranted disgust and disapproval of the humble green bubble - can't help it. It is just a sad reflection on how evolved man truly is versus how evolved man thinks and likes to think he is.

 

[The Game 161]

not seeing blue is tough to see for me now....

 

[revmacian]

The value of a human being is not dependent on the opinions of other human beings. The world will be a better place once everyone realizes that simple fact. When you base your identity on someone else's opinion you will never be any better than how they're treating you.

 

[rui no onna]

All over the world, we have just two apps that people love to use to communicate with each other - WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger - including in nations with predominantly iPhone-users.

Agree with Facebook Messenger being universal.

WhatsApp and similar apps like WeChat, Line, Telegram, Viber, etc, I think tend to be more regional. WhatsApp certainly does have a lion share, though.

 

[macintoshmac]

Agree with Facebook Messenger being universal.

WhatsApp and similar apps like WeChat, Line, Telegram, Viber, etc, I think tend to be more regional. WhatsApp certainly does have a lion share, though.

It seems boggling, but it is so that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are the top two apps used in the world as per reports in 2019. Where WhatsApp tops, FB Mesenger is second. Where FB Messenger tops, WhatsApp is second. Iran is the only country that has Telegram Messenger as its number 1 app, followed by Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, I forget.

 

[rui no onna]

It seems boggling, but it is so that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are the top two apps used in the world as per reports in 2019. Where WhatsApp tops, FB Mesenger is second. Where FB Messenger tops, WhatsApp is second. Iran is the only country that has Telegram Messenger as its number 1 app, followed by Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, I forget.

(SE/E) Asian viewpoint. Iirc, WeChat is dominant in China. Japan and Thailand are predominantly LINE. Philippines is Viber (albeit might be second to FB).

I don't doubt that WhatsApp is dominant in most regions, though.

However, I expect majority who use WhatsApp, Telegram, Line, Viber, etc. also use FB Messenger.

 

[Vally1945]

Wow, this is stupid. Yet another way to divide us up and pit us again each other.

PCMasterRace BTW

 

[Tsepz]

Everyone uses Line where I live (japan) so I dont get to experience the blue bubbles ever T_T

Yeah, here in South Africa most people use WhatsApp, so the whole iMessage thing isn’t really a thing here.

I do send iMessages every now and then if I want to send an insane or video with minimal compression to someone else with an iPhone, or when WhatsApp is down.

 

[Elitegate]

The article itself is about various people who refuse to even message with “green bubbles,” including a woman named Katie McDonough who will not date a man who uses an Android phone.

“If it’s not a blue message, I’m not going to bother flirting with you further,” she told The Post. “I’m just like, ‘Why don’t you have an iPhone?’

“McDonough even admitted that when her ex-boyfriend switched from an iPhone to an Android device, she felt that was the moment their relationship “started to go downhill.”

I'm just gonna leave that here. I'm like... 😂 😂 😂 😂

 

[bobsamm]

Green bubble and iMessage are a contradiction. It’s either or.

you know what I meant

 

[compwiz1202]

When I'm in the UK a green bubble means that a human just cost me 10 cents.

This annoyed me so much before unlimited. Just freaking double the price and make it sent only. You can control sending but not receiving.
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Looking at my message history, the green bubbles aren’t human. They’re automated SMS short codes from companies (usually Amazon, UPS or FedEx).

My green are those but also my parents with a flip and an Android.
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"Green Bubble, Blue Bubble, who gives a s@#$!" - Happy Gilmore

It definitely wouldn't be $$$ because a message from a Note 10 max storage would be just as green as from a Galaxy J phone.

 

[maxjohnson2]

I turn off FaceTime and iMessage on my iPhones.

Also my mail signature is changed to "Sent from my phone", not from my "iPhone", no need to be pretentious about what phone I have.

 

[Momof2.1107]

I've started switching those to my Google Voice number.

That’s what I ended up doing.

 

[ericwn]

you know what I meant

I am actually not sure what you meant cause what you wrote certainly made no sense.

Are you referring to MMS messages?

 

[QCassidy352]

All over the world, we have just two apps that people love to use to communicate with each other - WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger -

I’ll pass on anything owned or operated by Facebook.

 

[Tibits]

when I get a green bubble, I worry I used the wrong #

 

[Pakaku]

Only when I know it should be blue, otherwise, who cares?

 

[Closingracer]

Try explaining this to kids who actually form social groups around what color text messages people have. Its a serious social stigma in middle and high schools (as sad as that is). I have an 8th grader and we've talked about not making an issue out of someone's phone but she has group chats and says the green ones mess up the group chats lol.

Because including a green bubble in a group chat isn’t a group chat then. Mass text is an issue and I hate those. It’s annoying for sure but nothing to make a big deal out of m. Kind of wish Apple would go in with RCS or whatever it’s called that google has with Android devices. Getting rid of SMS all together and using RCS would be beneficial for Apple users as well.

Green bubble and iMessage are a contradiction. It’s either or.

I think you know what he means ... over the messenger app

You know, the US cellular carriers charge us a fortune compared to the UK, but at least we get unlimited SMS/MMS at no extra charge.

Mostly because it’s cheap. The make us pay a premium for data

Oh please. It's not about income and status. For me it's about how it can be a PITA if everyone isn't on iMessage. If you sent a video file to the group it can show up as a tiny, low-res version.

The other day my dad (iPhone) started a group chat with many relatives. Instead of getting each message as a chat message I get an email from phonenumber@@vzwpix.com that has an attachment with the message. I looked on his phone and in iMessage he sent to me using my Apple ID (email addr), which is valid.

Yes but to shun somebody because they don’t have an iPhone is dumb. Annoying yes but to ridicule somebody for phone choice is bad

Agree with Facebook Messenger being universal.

WhatsApp and similar apps like WeChat, Line, Telegram, Viber, etc, I think tend to be more regional. WhatsApp certainly does have a lion share, though.

+1


I mostly use iMessage, Facebook messenger or discord. I have WhatsApp but I barely use it.

 

[macintoshmac]

I’ll pass on anything owned or operated by Facebook.

I use Facebook only to manage business pages for people I work with and that's about it. I never synced my contacts with Facebook. But, since I also "have to" use WhatsApp if I am to stay in touch with clients, I recently became aware that without my knowledge, WhatsApp started uploading my contacts to their servers instead of just accessing them on device. This means that Facebook has my contacts now and without my knowledge. I am amazed at how the world continues to allow this one guy to infiltrate and violate their personal lives.

I am now trying to eliminate WhatsApp from my life, let's see the consequences. Privacy is not something I am willing to forego to stay in touch with other people.

Years ago, I stopped using Google search in favour of DuckDuckGo. Gmail was left long back in favour of my own domain and self-hosting, that moved to Office 365 since I needed Office apps, and now I have my email with Fastmail.

I do not like these privacy violations corporations undertake to benefit and secure their futures financially. It is just another version of robbing banks in a way.

 

[tranceking26]

Isn't the world such a wonderful place? I have never judged/mistreated anybody by what phone/app they use...

 

[macintoshmac]

Isn't the world such a wonderful place? I have never judged/mistreated anybody by what phone/app they use...

It's people's choice what software and hardware they use.. others have no business in it unless (as in Facebook's case) continued patronage from people emboldens the company to violate the people further and in novel ways.

 

[Shanghaichica]

iMessage must be a US thing because where I live most people use WhatsApp even if both people have iPhones.

This. I live in the U.K. and all My contacts use WhatsApp, whether we have iPhones or android phones. I think I’ve been using WhatsApp as my primary messaging app since 2010.

 

[bobsamm]

Nah not here, every one uses iMessage, hate the green bubble.

 

[bransoj]

This. I live in the U.K. and all My contacts use WhatsApp, whether we have iPhones or android phones. I think I’ve been using WhatsApp as my primary messaging app since 2010.

I live in the UK and use Whatsapp for one large message group, my cricket club, and everything else is via messages on the phone with the vast majority using iMessage. I hate Whatsapp and if it wasnt for this one group would not have it installed.

 

[Shanghaichica]

I live in the UK and use Whatsapp for one large message group, my cricket club, and everything else is via messages on the phone with the vast majority using iMessage. I hate Whatsapp and if it wasnt for this one group would not have it installed.

If only my contacts would use iMessage. My mum and cousin were the last holdouts but then they started using WhatsApp over iMessage. My mum has a MacBook and an iPhone so she would benefit from using iMessage but she discovered WhatsApp and now she won’t use anything else.