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[–] frostycakes@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Or they have and haven't told you, as I've experienced multiple times now (as an adult in my thirties, no less). It's why I fell out of my bar trivia group, they slowly forgot to send us Android users (aka my partner and I) texts separately, so we just drifted out of that circle.

It's comical how petty so many adults get about the bubbles too, and absolutely refuse to consider using anything else. Luckily my partner was on the Pixel train like me before we met, so it's not an issue there, but suggest Signal, Telegram, or hell, even Facebook Messenger (which they all have as well), and you just get befuddlement in response. Even my mother, who is in her fifties and is a department director at her job, gets perpetual shit from her coworkers re: the staff group chats that just can't go into Slack for whatever reason, as she's the lone Android user in that whole bunch. None of these people even grew up with cellphones of any type, and yet they're just as petty about messaging as any socially-obsessed teen.

Oh well, no skin off my back, and if anything this petty behavior from a subset of iOS users is basically an anti-advertisement to me.