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Of course it uses your Contacts. Would you prefer to add your contacts to WhatsApp individually and maintain a second set of mostly duplicated data?
by thirdsun 10y ago
Of course it uses your Contacts. Would you prefer to add your contacts to WhatsApp individually and maintain a second set of mostly duplicated data?
- Angostura 10y agoI would prefer to add the group of contacts I want to Whatsapp. I might want my social group there, I don't want my professional contacts on there. So yes I would prefer to have the option of adding contacts separately.
- rglullis 10y agoIt doesn't have to. We could use something like ENUM mapping [1] on the device and there would be one single set of data that the user is in control. Even better, it would mean that I can choose the granularity of access to different communication channels, so if someone has my phone number they wouldn't be able to know my other messaging handles unless I make it public. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping