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Bipta ,

"They send green texts"

Wtf does that mean?

athos77 ,

I'm guessing 'greentexts', not 'green texts'. As in, they forward screenshots or other content from 4chan

TheTetrapod ,

It takes an impressive level of social disconnection not to know about Android vs iPhone texting and assume a scientific study asked about an obscure meme format from 4chan.

Herbstzeitlose ,

It takes an impressive level of social disconnection not to know about Android vs iPhone texting

Or just not being American.

Default_Defect ,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Is 4chan more well known than apple outside of the US?

Syrc ,

Definitely more well-known than iMessage. I have an iPhone and most of my friends have an iPhone but we all use Whatsapp/Telegram.

Default_Defect ,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Using something else doesn’t make it less known.

Syrc ,

We literally never used it or saw someone else use it. None of us knows how it works. If you said “Green Texts” to them, the large majority would have no idea what you’re talking about, and the rest would think of the 4chan ones.

Lazylazycat ,

Most people outside the US don’t use SMS. I only learnt about the green text thing through reddit, I have literally never heard it mentioned IRL.

Opeth ,

Im from Europe and my first thought was also 4chan memes. Texting was a thing like what, 15 years ago? Everyone uses apps like WhatsApp or telegram. And for it being in a scientific study I thought it’d be in the same vain as people listening to Joe Rogan lmao. I’m finding the android vs iPhone thing even more petty

WhiteHawk ,

Texting? What year is this, 2000? Pretty much the entire world except the US use messenger services.

dingus ,
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

Its an iPhone vs. Android bullshit metric.

If you dont have an iPhone, you’re not a cool kid and viewed as “poor” despite many android phones being comparably priced to iPhones.

I’d say this is one of the few things I side-eye Gen Z about.

Got_Bent , (edited )

Leave it to Apple to embed perceived socioeconomic status in its damn text messages. I don’t really even know what a green text is, but I can assure you I’ll never send one.

Correction: I will only send green texts.

SnipingNinja ,
@SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net avatar

No, what you’ll not send is a blue text if you use Android

Edit: to clarify, iPhone shows texts from Android as green messages and from other iphones as blue. There are some side cases where iphones can send green texts but not relevant to the discussion.

Sean ,
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@dingus @Bipta
Are gen z likely to be uniformly iPhone users?

That's like the most conformist thing that I have ever heard. The study results are that 21%(F) 25%(M) find having an android phone is a green flag in their partner, while 7%(F) 6%(M) have it as a red flag, so it's not that bad as far android/iPhone is concerned.

huskypenguin ,

I think if you let someone that thought a green text was a red flag, they just flagged themselves as a red flag.

bermuda , (edited )

I think it might be different for dating results, but as a Gen Z member myself it’s more pervasive in just general friend group culture. People don’t like to include others that have different phones than them, especially if the group is iPhone and the outsider is android. I have an android currently and it’s actually pretty frustrating. People will get genuinely upset at me that I don’t have an iPhone, or if I ask for a phone charger at a get-together, nobody in the building has USB-C.

On the one hand it is seen as a status symbol but on the other hand it’s seen as a symbol that you’re a real member of Gen Z.

For a lot of my peers, the person they date never belongs to their “friend group,” so it makes sense that they wouldn’t consider it as mattering as much for a partner as it does for the group of friends.

edit: a good analogy I think is that gen z’s look at phone ownership the same way a lot of car people look at owning a prius. They’re good enough cars with great mileage and a whole host of perfectly fine features, but if you own one then you just cannot belong to the in-group.

TSG_Asmodeus ,
@TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world avatar

Is this an American thing? I’m Canadian, my kids are gen-Z, and I asked them about this and they hadn’t heard of it.

huskypenguin ,

Must be. It’s a weird form of classism.

AbidanYre ,

Outside the US they’re probably using WhatsApp or something else aside from iMessage.

superduperenigma ,

It means they have an iPhone. I have no idea why they decided to word it like that instead of just saying what it actually means.

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