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I don't give WhatsApp access to my contacts. Few enough people in my life use it, and they all have different profile pictures. I find it very weird to find, f
by diebeforei485 7y ago
I don't give WhatsApp access to my contacts. Few enough people in my life use it, and they all have different profile pictures.
I find it very weird to find, for example, my boss, or certain specific coworkers, on any social app. I don't want them to be able to find me either. This design decision of giving apps your entire contacts book by default has to die, and individual users need more choice instead.
- what_ever 7y agoWhatsapp has 1.5B MAU. I don't think people are interested in adding each and everyone manually. I want to know how that would work for majority of those people and not you personally.
- u801e 7y ago> I don't think people are interested in adding each and everyone manually. If they are interested, then they'll find a way.
- a254613e 7y agoThat's great for you, but whatsapp is de facto standard messaging app in a lot of countries. Memorizing hundred numbers, or profile pictures (assuming that everyone has one) is just not feasible. An app (such as whatsapp) getting access to all contacts is a valid use case, even though it doesn't apply to you.
- majewsky 7y agoNo. When you want to chat with a new person, WA just needs the contact of that single person.
- netsharc 7y agoAnd sadly for him, it doesn't matter anyway, presumably most if not all his friends already uploaded their address books, so WhatsApp already knows his real name and phone number and network of friends...