since I had some weird glitches with my Signal texting up a couple years ago, I've just been using my native texting app that comes standard with Samsung Galaxy phone, so I'm curious...
*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?
They don't. iMessage doesn't have read receipts built in for SMS (green bubbles), only blue bubbles sent from an Apple device.
Not sure about Samsung's app, but google messages will encrypt and do read receipts for other users also using google messages, but not for any other variant which is just decade old technology instead (SMS). It works the same as an iPhone user with iMessage.
Thank you. now I'm curious, is there a list of apps and phones etc that provide "seen" and "read" receipts?
I'd expect any non-sms messenger app to be able to do this.
It's really a limitation with SMS being a connectionless, best-effort system. SMS is like shouting into a room full of people and assuming the other person heard you.
There's lots of messenger comparisons out there that will show everything you ever wanted to know. Wikipedia has a small one.
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.
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.
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).