IPhone keeps receiving and sending out text message instead of imessage

For some odd reason my iphone has been sending and receiving text messages rather than imessage to other iphone users.  When they send messages to me their phone is sending it as text to me.  Also when they send messages, it takes a long time to send and it takes a while to finish sending.  I called Sprint and they said that if I have iMessage on, I have to turn off MMS.  If I have MMS on, I have to turn off iMessage.  That completely doesn't make any sense to me at all.  My phone is an iPhone 4.  Thanks in advance for the help

I figured out how to default back to text messages if iOS 8 was forcing you to use iMessages! It's a bit of a process but it goes as follows:
1. Leave iMessage on (trust me)
2. Select the "send & receive" section
3. Uncheck your Apple ID (the grey one)
4. Select your Apple ID (the blue one)
5. Select "sign out"
6. Back up & turn iMessage off
7. Voila! You can send text messages now!

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