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iMessage is one of the largest enablers of ostracization and teen bullying. It's a stupid cult - people see green text in their chats and they freak out. Apple knows this extremely well, and profits from it. Apple couldn't give two shits about the degraded security either. They know this pressures their users to be locked in to their platform, and pressures people outside to buy into it or suffer being on the outside of their cult. This quick move to cut off Beeper makes Apple's disregard for teens, security, and their own users painfully obvious. So long as they can coerce people into buying into their locked and incompatible system, Apple will continue to fuck everyone.
On the other hand, if this is true, kudos to society for clamping down on teen bullying. There wasn’t much (if any) bullying in my high school, but not long ago bullying and ostracizing was more… physically painful.
Like yeah it sucks that there’s still any, but this green text nonsense is a hell of a lot better than having one’s head flushed inside a toilet and the like. Good to see society making forward progress.
The green text is not the bullying, the green text is one of the new reasons the kids are getting their heads flushed in the toilet. The bullying has stayed the same, there are just new additional reasons to get bullied.
Oh. That’s disappointing, I guess there was some degree of wishful thinking in hoping bullying was actually easing up. My schools had next to no bullying + years of anti-hazing campaigns and I’d never actually heard of anyone dealing with the classic bullying stereotypes, so I thought we really were making progress.
I wonder if part of it was the setup of the schools, where we had only a few minutes between classes to transfer rooms. Not much time to flush heads in that span? But I also thought it was a common setup still used today so no idea.
It's probably a combination if reasons why it seems like there's less bullying.
Bullying is less physical now with online bullying existing. Also, it's difficult for outsiders to understand if someone is bullied if they don't bring it up.
E.g. some girl in my class was bullied in 8th grade, but it wasn't obvious to me as I wasn't close to them. For an outsider not paying particular attention making fun of someone a few times might just be friendly banter.
At least in my school there were 20min breaks after 90min of classes, so more than enough time to give someone a shower if they wanted. Edit: Altough I want to believe they had to be more careful so they chose less obvious forms of bullying.