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I think this is a generation gap thing. Most people under 30 don’t call or text anyway, so a phone number feels like pretty useless and low priority personal in
by bspammer 5y ago
I think this is a generation gap thing. Most people under 30 don’t call or text anyway, so a phone number feels like pretty useless and low priority personal information.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoI don't call or text much, but I don't appreciate how phone numbers cost money and are intrinsically tied to your personal identity (unless you're an adult and spend time and money shopping for burner phones), whereas email addresses and Matrix accounts are permissionless.
- nexuist 5y agoThe phone number being tied to your identity is the entire point. If you get banned from a community are you really going to go to Verizon and ask for a new one every time you want to join again? The alternative is the kind of problem that is all too common on IRC where a troll keeps making burner accounts faster than the mods can ban them and generally ruining the experience for everyone else in the channel.
- dymk 5y ago… you really think most people under 30 don’t text?
- bspammer 5y agoNot via SMS in my experience, no.
- dymk 5y agoYour experience is a bubble, and a very different claim than "most people under 30 don't text"
- rvense 5y agoI imagine this is geographic. Texts are quite expensive in some places, and that means people use alternatives instead. Also some people had pervasive mobile phone usage for a long time before smartphones made other options available, which I imagine would add to their popularity. Here in Denmark SMS is very entrenched, but I know it varies in other countries.
- bspammer 5y agoI thought it was pretty clear I was referring to SMS by context given that other forms of texting don’t require a phone number
- diogenesjunior 5y agoI'm under 20 and still share the same opinions with most in this thread. I don't give out my phone number unless I'm talking to you in person.