When it come to cell phones and all of their fancy apps these days it always seems that there is something on the rise. I'm personally a part of #teamdroid (twitter talk for those of you who don't know) however have always been curious about the use of blackberrys. My #teamblackberry friends all brag about their use of BBM (black berry messanger) in which they can exclusively talk to other blackberry users. This sense of exclusiveness gives the blackberry users a type of superiority over #teamdroid and #teamiphone.
Now, however, all worlds can unite. The newest application on the yard is Kik, a knock off version of BBM that is compatible with all smart phones that accept applications. As a droid user, I can now communicate with blackberry or iphone users in a way other than text messaging. Similar to AIM or Skype, it is a streamed conversation between two people.
Shouldn't we all be excited about this unification of technology users? Well, you'd be suprised as how many people just aren't having it. When Kik came out, my twitter BLEW UP with slander back and forth between droid, iphone, and blackberry users. #teamblackberry called Kik a knockoff-wannbe and said that they were the originators and all others were just copy cats. #teamdroid and #teamiphone seemed to do the na-na-na-na-boo-boo attitude that wanted to flaunt that they now had something just like BBM.
Overall I think that this is just a very interesting topic that has come up and is seeming to overflow my twitter timeline. http://www.kik.com/ is the offical Kik website that offers more information. I guess the question that lies within is.. What team are you on?
-Natalie Friday
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