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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[–] 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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