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Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. There was no difference for me at 15 between my physical relationship with this person and our life on BBM. If anything, the latter felt even more intimate and safe.

Early messages on the Crackberry forum are full of people trying to sum up why BBM felt better to use than standard text messages. BBM helped create one of the most anxiety-inducing messaging features that still exists today: read receipts. Read receipts were introduced alongside BBM in Colleagues knew when someone was available and could hear back instantaneously.

But the read receipt function came back to bite me, a person who often reads a message and replies hours later. Read receipts haunted me for years after I left BBM. I only just turned them back on through iMessage recently as an experiment. The only difference between my anxiety now and then is not having to deal with an angry, blinking red light at the top of my phone.

For all that made BBM sometimes frustrating to use, it gave me something I miss today: a private community. BBM felt like a tiny oasis in a growing field of social networks and sites that wanted everything to be bigger. Sites like Habbo Hotel and Twitter helped create the internet we know today, all based on giving people the ability to talk to one another. But BBM was different. The fact that it was on your phone, a thing that already feels incredibly personal because it lives in your hand, only strengthened that feeling.

Today, during a time when the internet feels too noisy, I find myself wistfully thinking about those early BBM group chats. That never stopped being BBM for me. It was the platform that helped me fall in love with cellphones and the thing that encouraged me to share dumb memes. It was the service that showed me small online experiences are usually more fun.

The plan never got off the ground. BBM hung around for a little, eventually becoming an optional messaging platform on Apple and Android devices, but it never managed to reclaim the cultural cache it once held.

I still use group chats today with my friends. One lives on Facebook Messenger, the others are through iMessage or standard texting. On top of using the device options and checking out the back of a BlackBerry smartphone, you can also grab your PIN number while using BlackBerry Messenger. This handy feature allows a BlackBerry smartphone to replace specific text with Autotext entries. For example, if you type something that can be replaced with an Autotext entry, the text changes after you press the Space key for example, BRB will change to Be Right Back.

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