What's your country's version of the blue/green bubble?
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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
Oh, honey, that wasn't why...
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Rangers v Celtic?
No, more like "City F.C." v "City United", lol.
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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
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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
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I mean, you can make a video about anything. That doesn't make it real.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You asked a legitimate question, and I provided three sources describing the phenomenon.
Just because you haven't experienced it personally (or met people who have) doesn't mean it's not real, either.
Plenty of people haven't met a gay or trans person in their life, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist or that issues they face should be dismissed out of hand.
Dismissing the question doesn't add to the conversation. If you don't want to engage with the question, that's fine. Don't comment. Just downvote and move on.
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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"?
I am from Germany and what brand of car your are driving is often seen as a statement, often associated with a certain social group.
Although I have observed that this has been constantly diminishing over the years. -
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"?
its not really a thing in the us. never been a thing with me or my friends and im pretty sure this is one of those things where it came up but then was blown out of proportion where most everyone never really cared about it.
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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"?
Scone / scone.
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I am from Germany and what brand of car your are driving is often seen as a statement, often associated with a certain social group.
Although I have observed that this has been constantly diminishing over the years.wrote last edited by [email protected]German, too. I don't own a car, but is this whole EV vs. combustion still as big a thing as it was 7 years ago? I feel it was a much bigger discussion here due to our car tradition/ obsession than in the US. Elon is a dipshit, and until that was apperent to everyone, EVs were cool due to Tesla
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German, too. I don't own a car, but is this whole EV vs. combustion still as big a thing as it was 7 years ago? I feel it was a much bigger discussion here due to our car tradition/ obsession than in the US. Elon is a dipshit, and until that was apperent to everyone, EVs were cool due to Tesla
Has it ever been?
I mean, outside of some mostly right-wing bubbles that are trying to exaggerate it as some kind of oppression symbol in a cultural war that happens mainly in their heads?Most people I know treat the topic from a rather rational perspective regarding the pros and cons of EVs in their specific situations.
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Scone / scone.
Care to elaborate for non-British/Irish people?
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Has it ever been?
I mean, outside of some mostly right-wing bubbles that are trying to exaggerate it as some kind of oppression symbol in a cultural war that happens mainly in their heads?Most people I know treat the topic from a rather rational perspective regarding the pros and cons of EVs in their specific situations.
Really? I felt it was a major topic back then. Maybe due to the whole Fridays for Future Movement which I followed closely at the time and faced a lot of backslash from conservatives. Online bubbles
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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"?
do you chat by sms? are you ok?
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You asked a legitimate question, and I provided three sources describing the phenomenon.
Just because you haven't experienced it personally (or met people who have) doesn't mean it's not real, either.
Plenty of people haven't met a gay or trans person in their life, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist or that issues they face should be dismissed out of hand.
Dismissing the question doesn't add to the conversation. If you don't want to engage with the question, that's fine. Don't comment. Just downvote and move on.
Unfortunately they're on Blahaj, so they've never gotten the downvote message that they're dumb.
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Really? I felt it was a major topic back then. Maybe due to the whole Fridays for Future Movement which I followed closely at the time and faced a lot of backslash from conservatives. Online bubbles
A very loud (i.e. present in social and normal media) but in my everyday life almost none-existent group of people.
They seem to have migrated from Diesel-against-Greta-"Empƶrung" (is there an English word for that?) to Corona-deniers and now to fighters in self-proclaimed cultural wars against green topics and a tolerant society. All sprinkled with some deep right-wing views.
Might be different in other parts of Germany though, my sample is mainly taken from Bavaria and south-western Germany.
I personally know of only two families leaning into Schwurbler-views - out of hundreds of chilled ones. One of these actually drives a Pickup. But also owns a house with a solar roof... so... well.You live abroad now?
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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Are there people who really view it as a social division? I've never met anyone who seriously thinks that.
As someone with basic knowledge of what itās doing, I find it important to distinguish encrypted from unencrypted communications
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Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!
The "Blue" vs. "Green" Bubble War is Insane.
::: spoiler Why Appleās iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble
Grace Fang, 20-years-old, said she too saw such social dynamics among her peers at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. āIāve had people with Androids apologize that they have Androids and donāt have iMessage,ā she said. āI donāt know if itās Apple propaganda or just like a tribal in-group versus out-group thing going on, but people donāt seem to like green text bubbles that much and seem to have this visceral negative reaction to it.ā Ms. Fang added that she finds the hubbub silly and that she prefers to avoid texting all together.
āIāve had people with Androids apologize that they have Androids and donāt have iMessage,ā said Grace Fang.
Jocelyn Maher, a 24-year-old masterās student in upstate New York, said her friends and younger sister have mocked her for exchanging texts with potential paramours using Android phones. āI was like,
Oh my gosh, his texts are green,ā and my sister literally went,Ew thatās gross,āā Ms. Maher said.She noted that she once successfully persuaded a boyfriend to switch to an iPhone after some gentle badgering. Their relationship didnāt last.
Such interactions have made fertile ground for memes on social media. During the pandemic, Jeremy Cangiano, who just finished up his MBA at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, dealt with his boredom on TikTok, quickly noticing that blue-bubble-green-bubble memes were popular among young people. He tried to cash in on it last year by selling his own merchandise that touted, āNever Date a Green Texter.ā
:::wrote last edited by [email protected]Iāve seen so many articles n this but still have a problem believing itās real. I still think itās a made up fad by journalists and no one really cares. That would be silly.
When I asked my teens the answer was āno one uses iMessages and thatās not relevant on Instaā
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A very loud (i.e. present in social and normal media) but in my everyday life almost none-existent group of people.
They seem to have migrated from Diesel-against-Greta-"Empƶrung" (is there an English word for that?) to Corona-deniers and now to fighters in self-proclaimed cultural wars against green topics and a tolerant society. All sprinkled with some deep right-wing views.
Might be different in other parts of Germany though, my sample is mainly taken from Bavaria and south-western Germany.
I personally know of only two families leaning into Schwurbler-views - out of hundreds of chilled ones. One of these actually drives a Pickup. But also owns a house with a solar roof... so... well.You live abroad now?
Yeah, I don't remember anyone from my rl social circle who was opposed to them. Maybe sceptical at first, I think is fair with bleeding edge tech. by now, some of them use an EV as their daily driver and are super happy.
I don't know anyone who I'd call "Schwurbler", so it didn't witness this shift of topis myself, but yeah, that tracks.
Good for your neighbour though. I guess we are all quite complex creatures or it was simply a good investment xDBut no, I am still in Germany. I was just under the impression that Tesla was seen as cool in the US due to Musk's image as a funny, relatable internet guy back then, going as far as to Tesla's stocks only performing as well due to his very loyal online fanbase, while we in Germany were still to scared to even touch the damn technology, leading to a much higher adoption rate in the US then here. (What a monsterous sentence, I hope it makes sense) But I could be wrong.
āEmpƶrungā (is there an English word for that?)
Outrage, I think -
Care to elaborate for non-British/Irish people?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Scone should be pronounced scone and not scone.
In some parts of the country, it's pronounced to rhyme with cone, and in other parts it's pronounced to rhyme with gone. That would be simple but there is another orthogonal dimension which is a demographic one (usually self-perceived class) which also influences the pronunciation.
It is, consequently, almost impossible to guess how any given person you meet might pronounce the word. And it is also something which, while seeming incredibly trivial, people here feel very strongly about.
I, of course, pronounce it correctly: scone.
