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Drusas ,

What does "they send green texts" even mean? Like...literally just using a green colored font?

AbidanYre ,

Apple vs Android

krush_groove ,

That’s the dumbest fucking thing to have a red flag about.

Darxium ,

If anything someone caring too much about the OS another person is using is a more reasonable red flag IMO

Art3sian ,
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Apple vs. Android isn’t even a conversation here in Australia. No one gives a shit.

AbidanYre ,

I don’t know how much of a problem it actually is, but I’ve seen a decent number of articles bemoaning the issue.

kadu ,
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    Drusas ,

    I'm American, but most of the people I know use Signal.

    GuilhermePelayo ,

    Damn you know some cultured people. I can’t get anyone to leave Whatsapp for it. Even when I mention how ugly it is and how shady it is for it to be owned by Facebook

    Drusas ,

    I expect it's because so much of my friend group is a tech type person and our families not big Facebook people.

    GuilhermePelayo ,

    Oh that makes sense. The sad thing is that I feel like most people would find signal less cluttered than Whatsapp

    monsterpiece42 ,

    Also American. I like signal, but have an easier time getting people on to telegram in my circle at least.

    Drusas ,

    Funny. I don't know a single person who uses Telegram.

    XanXic ,

    On iPhone if someone without an iPhone texts you it shows up as green. It also disabled a bunch of iphone features you can use since they aren’t on iPhone.

    Essentially weird elitism. It’s come up in my dating life.

    volvoxvsmarla ,

    It’s come up in my dating life.

    Please tell me that’s a joke

    XanXic ,

    No lol, two weeks ago I was messaging a girl and she asked if I was using an Android. I was like yeah, it’s a galaxy fold. Which seemed to placate her. I believe there’s like a vibe of if you don’t have an iPhone you’re poor or something lol.

    SpookyUnderwear ,

    I consider that a good thing. Helps people dodge a bullet. That’s a level of shallowness one should avoid.

    pascal ,

    I wish we had this in Europe, would be easier to filter out those bullets.

    Unfortunately in Europe nobody cares about green texts nor iMessage, everyone uses telegram or WhatsApp.

    volvoxvsmarla ,

    Wow. Just wow. Well I guess you dodged a bullet there. (Unless she’s your girlfriend now, then I take that back and I’m sure she has amazing qualities nevermind the phone fascism!)

    Honestly I thought the green texts refers to those 4chan green texts

    loutr ,
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    Same lol “OK they don’t like 4chan, reasonable enough… oh, it’s about phones”

    Cal_ ,

    I’ve heard a lot of people say this but personally not experienced many people who actually give much of a shit about what color my texts are.

    I think this article proves that green text prejudice is a little overblown. From the amount of complaining I’ve heard on social media from Android users. I would have guessed the number would be higher than 7%.

    As far as I know, I’ve only been left out of one group message. I Don’t need to be friends with people that care what color your bubble is.

    XanXic ,

    I think it depends what age range you’re dating. It definitely matters more to early 20 yo girls than late 20yo girls in my experience

    el_abuelo ,

    That’s insane. I can easily afford any device I want - I choose Android due to its more progressive feature set (as in it gets the good shit before apple decides to include it in ios). It amuses me that people would filter me out due to that - it’s another self-filter…as it filters out the people who are too narrow minded for me!

    DerisionConsulting ,

    It’s poorly worded.

    I assume they are meaning “When being viewed in imessage, the messages they send are in a green bubble, meaning they are using a non-apple device”. Doesn’t need to be android, there are other phone OSs.

    “Green text” is also slang for a specific writing style on 4chan. If someone just kept sending me text memes from 4chan, that would be a red flag.

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