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?

  • pazukaza
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    1 year ago

    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 year ago

      I think US carriers moved primarily to “unlimited text” before smart phones were the standard. It’s just momentum and many people to l don’t have any reason to switch.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, I see. Yeha, sending SMS here was expensive when WhatsApp showed up.

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        1 year ago

        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 year ago

          really spam texts i don’t remember getting many of those. i do get auto text for things like deliveries and check deposits but not spam