*app, not “up”

When I send people texts, they might be Apple users or any other various phones and texting apps, are any of their texting apps such that it notifies them when a message has been seen or read?

I don’t get “seen” or “read” information on my end. Do they?

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    SMS is like shouting into a room full of people and assuming the other person heard you.

    So are you saying that when I send someone a text, a dozen random people receive that text and may or may not have actually been received by the intended recipient? Please explain.

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      1 year ago

      No, it’s a bad analogy. SMS is more like shooting a homing missile at someone, and then walking away. It’s probably going to find them, but if it doesn’t, you won’t know until you ask them about it.

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        1 year ago

        Lol, even better.

        Though shouting into a room isn’t too far off - it’s sent via plain text, so anyone could on the IP network can read it, if they wanted to (the cell part is moderately more secure, though susceptible to man-in-the-middle, such as Stingrays).