How to Fix iMessage's Read Receipts: A Proposal

If you've ever used iMessage, the proprietary messaging platform for Apple devices such as the iPhone, you've probably developed an opinion (or a refined lack of opinion) about its "read receipts" feature. They're based on a simple idea--what if you could automatically notify people that you had seen their messages?--yet have slowly become iMessage's most controversial and divisive function. The app's read receipts are the inspiration for unending teenage drama, the subject of ongoing public deb...