I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (9 children)

It's so exclusive to the US that I didn't even understand what OP was saying before reading the comment section for clues.

Blue bubbles, green bubbles? Wtf is that and how is it related to Android/iOS.

For reference, I live in South East Asia and use Android, but I have never heard my friends using iOS complain about some kinda bubble colour.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I live in the US and I had no idea what the OP was talking about. I am in the same boat as you with the blue vs green bubbles thing (but now I know thanks to the comments) and am also an android user. I was today years old when I found out I apparently send green bubbles to iPhones.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Why are you guys texting? Don't you have WhatsApp or Telegram?

    I haven't sent an SMS since 2012. What is going on in the US?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well, there are many who use whatsapp here. But it's definitely not universal.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Don't you guys get like an incredible amount of spam via SMS? It became kinda like email but worse.

    I can't block the short numbers companies use to send SMS because they are usually using a third party SMS service. So, different companies can send messages that arrive with the same number. If I block an SMS ad, I might be also blocking an important SMS alert from my bank warning some security issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can you ELI5? I'm reading the comments and still not comprehending what's going on here.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    I think the SMS app on iPhone marks messages sent from an iPhone as blue, and the rest are marked as green.

    OP is saying that their iPhone-using friends judge people by the colour of messages. Which is idiotic and completely unheard of over here in my country.

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