For those who don’t know:
Texts from iPhone to iPhone appear as blue bubbles, while texts from Android users appear as green.
For many in the US who still use SMS to communicate, the blue/green bubble divide is a huge source of social conflict.
What’s your version of “If everyone knew this was a thing in my country, they’d think it was silly”?
You probably don’t interact with a lot of teens then. It’s pretty common in high schools and college campuses. I was told a decade ago that my green bubbles were probably why women stopped texting me after I got their number off okcupid
Bullet dodged
Oh, OKC used to rock a decade ago. Before they started the monitization efforts they had over a thousand questions that you could pre-sort matches based off of their importance to both of you. There wasn’t swiping, you just actually looked at profiles. It really rewarded writing good profiles which I happen to do well
If someone is turning you down because of some stupid Apple-manufactured social status, you deserve better than them
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Fwiw, my partner and I met on OkC 5 years ago. It used to be so much better. I got really high one day and answered like a thousand questions, which got me really accurate match percentages. Shame it’s trash now.
Oh, honey, that wasn’t why…
It was, I got laid plenty in college. I meant I would get a woman’s number, text her, then she would give 2/3 responses and disappear. It stopped almost entirely when I switched to asking for Snapchat instead
Too bad we can’t completely isolate the variables.