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Are you seriously implying that the phone system is a reliable registry? I change phone number every year, most of my friends have changed phone number several
by baby 5y ago
Are you seriously implying that the phone system is a reliable registry? I change phone number every year, most of my friends have changed phone number several times since I know them. There's a reason I've lost touch with old friends who deleted their facebook accounts.
- skybrian 5y agoThat’s very strange. Why would you change phone numbers? It seems like you’re being deliberately hard to reach? It seems similar to deleting your Facebook account every year.
- baby 5y agoHow is this similar? I only use a phone number for services and never for friends. I change often because I travel a lot.
- skybrian 5y agoWell, that in itself seems unusual. I don’t believe I ever met anyone who didn’t talk to friends and relatives on the phone.
- baby 5y agoReally? I don’t know anyone who use their phones to talk to friends or relatives. Everybody use whatsapp or messenger.
- hansel_der 5y agoi guess whatsapp runs on your phone?
- baby 5y agoAh, then we agree. I thought you meant using phone numbers to call someone directly.
- hansel_der 5y agowe agree to the point that a "phone" is usually involved. still i frequently call and get called by people _directly_ (business and personal) and i don't see that changing until neccessitated by latency or bandwidth constraints (eg. interplanetary communication)
- hansel_der 5y agochanging a phone number does about the same damage to your reachability than deleting you (fb-)account and creating one with a new name. facebook is less of a public registry than the phone system thou.
- baby 5y agoI disagree, eventhough I've changed phone number 10 times in the last 10 years, I've only lost contact with a few people (who were the ones who deleted their fb account). Perhaps we're not from the same generation, but people around me keep in touch not with phone numbers. Actually, I still remember a time in a distant past where people who ask for each other's phone numbers after meeting, but that's long gone.
- hansel_der 5y agoi respect your disagreement and, baring the possibility that we are indeed of a different generation, would like to bring to your attention the fact that it makes litte difference wether you change your phone number or make a new facebook account - the links associated with the old handle are gone unless migrated somehow. ppl are still exchanging identifiers after meetings
- dijit 5y agoCounterpoint: I've had the same phone number for 7 years (Sweden), and another number for 15 years (British), but I've deleted my Facebook account multiple times in that timespan, and removed "friends" even more commonly when they started posting excessively political stuff and I didn't have a strong connection to them. Are you aware that you can take phone numbers with you when you change providers? As for the other point: they're addressable on the entire planet, you can be sure everyone has one and it's not tied to a singular company. So, while I'm joking about the equivalency, you said that a "registry that everyone on the planet was on" was the value add- I'm suggesting, somewhat tongue-in-cheekly, that we have such a system.
- baby 5y agoI travel a lot, and so do my friends as I end up meeting a lot of exchange students and expats. Moving with your phone number is not a thing everywhere.
- hansel_der 5y agomore to the point: moving with your $account_id is not a thing everywhere. phone number is a username in a worldwide public registry
- dcminter 5y agoI'm with you and I don't have any connection with, or financial interest in, Facebook. I use it. A lot of my friends and family do too. It makes it easy to stay connected with and re-engage with people in your social group. It managed the spam problem reasonably well (those Ray Ban scams are a relatively infrequent problem). It makes to easy to start, run, find, and join niche interest groups. I'm in a dance community that would find it much harder to find each other's events without Facebook Events. My wife is in a vintage community that carries out low-friction international vintage clothing exchanges through Facebook Groups. There are communities using Facebok to run small businesses and serve their communities. Oh and I change my phone number when I change phone company because it's easier than not. Now, I also think there are things wrong with Facebook and with how the network effect impacts on its competition. I think it could use oversight and regulation. But your naysayers are unimaginative children. Of course Facebook provides societal benefits. Get real.
- starfallg 5y agoIf it's good enough for WhatsApp...