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Comment by intrasight | Hacker News Reader

I've never heard an actual human express noticing or caring about the color of the bubble.

The main annoying thing when added to a mixed group of SMS and iMessage group chats is that you cannot leave them, or add anyone after the fact without creating an entirely new chat with all the contacts from scratch.

It was commented on frequently when I was online dating, to the point that it got annoying. I've had a few friends mention it and jokingly tell me to give in and get an iPhone. I'm mid-thirties.

Me either, and the adults I know, don't even seem to know the difference.

I often get people trying to send me videos or files via SMS (I have an Android, and I guess it normally works for them when sending to other Apple users).

(I say adults, because I often hear kids use it as a status symbol or way to exclude other kids from group messages. I will have to ask the kids I work with what they think about message color bubbles.)

Kids do it, I've heard it, it's an actual thing in that age group, adults don't care. It's like having a collection of gobots instead of transformers if you're an 80s kid.

I care, and I’m an adult. I don’t care a lot, certainly not so much that I’d exclude someone from a social group, but I do get slightly annoyed when I have to communicate with someone via SMS because it’s so much slower, less reliable, less featureful etc. than iMessage.

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