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This website actually asked me if I wanted to share personal informstion with them and their 1.5k partners :o
Also they cite this Reuters article which is basically the same article and you should read instead.
US is still stuck in green bubble vs blue bubble mentality, i don't see any ripple effect happening.
You know, I have never, not even once, run into that. Not even with my kid at school.
Nobody gives a fuck that I've seen. The kids don't use sms at all between each other, nor imessage. They use discord. And that's the entire damn school, no kid gives a damn about any other service as a primary platform. Even the tech geek kids use discord for their friends, and stick with signal or similar options for anything else, and only use sms with relatives. That includes the otherwise open source loving computer club that mostly uses Linux when they have a choice and complain about being to use ipads for school work.
Same with kids a in other schools that I'm aware of.
Might be a southern thing, might be a po' folks thing since we're a fairly rural and low income county. I dunno the why of it, but the whole imessgae color thing isn't a thing I've run into irl, ever.
I think it is definitely a weird "first world" thing. I've run into it a couple times on a personal level, and just about a week or so ago I got a "wait, you're an android person??? Ugh" when trading numbers with someone for a work thing (as in this is the first time I was meeting this person, and the interaction was entirely "professional"). This is all separate from the friends I have that play it up as joke, since I'm one of the only people with an android in the group.
Idk what the kids are doing, but it's absolutely a thing for some people in their twenty's and beyond.
I don't know, mate. I live in Europe and that's what I hear from the media and on social platforms. Maybe it's all false and you live in a land of unicorns...
Soooo, you don't live in America, but you're making claims about people in America doing something, based on second (or even third) hand information?
Not exactly the best policy overall. Yeah, anecdotes are anecdotes, but boots on the ground is still better than binoculars from afar
As far as I understand it, it isn't kids; it's adults and adolescents of certain demographics. Mostly in the USA.