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The green bubble problem is about to get even worse (Apple/Android) (www.theverge.com)

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[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to make light of your kids situation, but sending pics/videos over mms is horrible they aren't being metaphorical when they say it ruins the chats. Imagine compressing a video to < 1MB and you would get something unseeable. Now i would recommned they all switch to snapchat, its very popular and wont mess with the group chat no matter the device used :)

[–] jboyens 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I totally get it. It's super dumb, but being a kid is really hard these days; kind of ridiculously so.

Long story short: they got iPhones. Do I like it? No. Did it make me feel bad to pay into that dark pattern? Yeah. Did I do it anyway? Yup.

But at the end of the day, I had a choice between doing what I felt was right vs. doing what would make their lives just a little easier psychologically.

I did explain how stupid it was that Apple was doing this, how much it was complete and utter nonsense, and what dark patterns were. I can't force their friends to do different things, but I can nudge their behavior. I taught them about Signal and they've shown their friends. It hasn't caught on like wildfire of course, but, it's there and I learned that at least some kids today understand a lot more about privacy and security than I'd given them credit for.