Bubble Trouble
Picture this: there’s a group of friends, and one girl gets left out. What popped into your head? A middle school cafeteria, or a Mean Girls style squad walking down the hallway? What if I told you it’s as easy as making a group chat and neglecting to add someone?
News flash, in case you thought it was still 2007: exclusion isn’t as simple as it used to be. Group chats differ from face to face conversations because they’re facilitated by a messaging service. Take iMessage, for example. 83%10 of teenagers have an iPhone, whose parent company is Apple, which means 83% of teenagers are using iMessage to communicate with each other. Yet iMessage doesn’t just control how teens communicate, it influences who they communicate with. Within the app, a text sent to an iPhone owner shows up blue, while a text sent to a non-iPhone shows up green.
But who would exclude someone just because their message bubble is green?
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