Usernames on whatsapp
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Doug Lee
Jasmin
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Doug Lee
I finally got the "reserve username" prompt and reserved mine just now. Sadly the one I wanted most was already taken. When this really goes live, I hope people remember to double-check username guesses before firing off messages because of this possibility lol.
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Theepan
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Gordon
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Jasmin
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Gordon
Oh isn’t that annoying. You join a WhatsApp group you start getting random private messages from strangers telling you that they added you to their contacts because they saw you on the group. That has happened to me on several occasions. And that can be rather dangerous because if people are adding you to their contacts then your number becomes part of anything else where they share their contacts.
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Doug Lee
@Gordon You just described why I avoided Facebook, then Meta, for many years: The fact that they deliberately absorb what they can about everyone referenced by people on their platform, not just everyone who is actually on their platform. Last year I joined WhatsApp to help a Bible group, deciding while I was at it that such practices are by now more universal than unique, like it or not.
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Jo Billard
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Jo Billard
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Doug Lee
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King Tripple Whopper
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