Various nuggets of interest in this survey of Gen Z and millennials

  • XanXic@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

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        9 months ago

        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.

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            9 months ago

            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.

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          9 months ago

          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

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      9 months ago

      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!

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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        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