Messages green instead of blue.

Since installing Yosemite my messages are green instead of blue. Same recipient on an iPhone, same message thread, but now they are green, they used to be blue.
Not a big deal, just curious what happened.

Hello hot_spur,
Green bubbles indicate SMS messages.
Messages Help - Get and send SMS messages
https://help.apple.com/messages/mac/10.10/index.html
Cheers,
Allen

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