As more teens get their own iPhones and a rising number of schools crack down on social media, AirDrop culture has gone mainstream-and more adults are getting caught in the crossfire.
Many adults use AirDrop to share files one-on-one, but teens have embraced mass image sharing via AirDrop for years. Phones with AirDrop enabled can exchange files from up to 30 feet away, whether or not they’re in each other’s contact lists. One young Twitter user joked that she was going to a music festival last weekend “ just to AirDrop.”ĪirDrop is a file-sharing feature on Apple devices that lets users send photos, videos, contacts, links, and more via a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. “In a crowd of teens and they keep trying to AirDrop me memes!!!” said another. “Another day another group of french teens trying to AirDrop me memes on the subway,” one woman tweeted. “I was like, I don’t know what this means!” she told me.Īnyone who has accidentally left their AirDrop settings open around a group of teens is likely familiar with the deluge of memes, selfies, and notes that arrives so quickly it can often freeze your phone. A group of them snickered as she opened it and looked around. She received an AirDrop request containing an image of several boys’ Bitmoji characters dressed in chicken suits. Within moments, her phone began blowing up. Veronica Belmont, a product manager at Adobe Spark, was riding the train down to Silicon Valley, doing some work on her phone, when dozens of teenagers plopped down into the seats around her.
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