• Skeezix@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Keep in nind that Meta and Google know your phone number, address, birthday, etc because your friends keep you in their contact list.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Couple weeks back. I moved countries a few years ago and those people I haven’t spoke to in a decade before that so no point on keeping them.

  • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
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    28 days ago

    Because they were names I’d been scrolling by for years and will never, ever intentionally call them. Nothing bad, just things like old work contacts, or even people from college and high school that were added decades ago and never left my phonebook.

    I never wanted to delete them just in case one day I needed to get in touch with them, but it ended up turning into a digital junk pile that I need to clean out now and then.

    I can always add them back in if we ever cross paths in the future.

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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    28 days ago

    Got a new sim last week. Had some numbers stored on the old sim. I saved a few, but didn’t bother relocating most of them. That’s the same as deleting them, right?

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Thanks for the reminder. I just wiped 110 contacts.

    Three had passed away. Many were colleagues from over 20 years ago. A lot were army buddies from over 25 years ago. Some ex-partners of friends. Too many fast-food places from cities I haven’t lived in in forever.

  • boydster@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    Started hosting my own Radicale instance a while back and cleaned up my contact list when I made the transition.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    The contacts I last removed were some classmates and school contacts of my daughter, who just finished university…