I’m that dad, I’m afraid. The fact that the app demands full access to all contacts on your phone to work nicely is just evil. And people happily give meta the full contact details of their family, doctor, bank, boss etc. - without those people’s permission. The value in the harvested social graph is huge
It is the default mode of text communication here. My dad insists on using normal texts and that’s a bit weird…
I’m that dad, I’m afraid. The fact that the app demands full access to all contacts on your phone to work nicely is just evil. And people happily give meta the full contact details of their family, doctor, bank, boss etc. - without those people’s permission. The value in the harvested social graph is huge