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The thing is, if you don't have contact information for the person through another medium, then Facebook has a de-facto monopoly on your communication with that
by lambda 16y ago
The thing is, if you don't have contact information for the person through another medium, then Facebook has a de-facto monopoly on your communication with that person. And Facebook actively prevents you from extracting contact information from Facebook in order to use in other services; you can only extract contact information for communicating through their messaging system.
Network effects matter. The privacy and censorship concerns people have about Facebook are for good reasons.
- sanswork 16y agoThey don't yet block the ability to trade alternative contact information. If you want to send something that is blocked by facebook send them another message instead asking for an alternative contact medium.