One thing I could never understand is those groups on Facebook that say “GOT A NEW PHONE, NEED NUMBERS.” Something like that is just ridiculous since it is basically a public database of phone numbers. I can view total stranger’s numbers. Sure they were meant for a certain someone to see, but shit happens when you post it in a public place. Next time do it over something that is a two way convo such as an email or an instant message. It seems people are forgetting what a “group” is, a group is not the same thing as a bulletin message. If you were in school you wouldn’t create a “I GOT A NEW PHONE AND NEED NUMBERS club.”  However safety and security isn’t the reason why I dislike those groups.

Why I dislike them is because instead of the person going through the contact list on their old phone and simply going through everyone they find is simpler to re-ask EVERYONE instead of the people they used to have. If the person was to go through their old phone to get the numbers they would have all of them right away, with Facebook a person might take a day, or even a week to give you that phone number. Modern and even older phones have an option to export your contact list, most often it is on a SIM card or sometimes it syncs with your Outlook contacts. If you can pull that off then you re-obtain all your contacts within a couple of seconds.  No matter how you do it it’s faster without Facebook.