So let me try to understand you. You have 200 friends on whatsapp and FB locks you out . Now you can start sending them letters ? And how do you get their number .

WhatsApp,WeChat , messenger , telegram all use private addressing

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skydhash 3 days ago | parent [-]

You don't have 200 friends on WhatsApp. You have 200 contacts on your phone, which WA will pick up.

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kube-system 3 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe you do. I have zero contacts synced with WhatsApp

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rvnx 3 days ago | parent [-]

Reminds me of a story: When Facebook was launched I created an account.

Fast forward 10 years, account got permanently locked for suspicious activity.

Unsuccessful appeal. So permanently lost contact with some of my childhood friends and no way to recover them as they are in private mode.

If you hope on Instagram to find a girlfriend, it can also have a serious impact on your life to not have access to it. No instagram + no WhatsApp = paranoid weirdo = not dating material

	▲	alex1138 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Facebook's actually the only company I've heard of that will ban you for inactivity. Gmail will delete addresses if you don't log in for a while though I think they probably scan for 'one and done' things, and not things that look like critical infrastructure, but that's just a guess Seems very hand in hand with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15222240 See, this is why IT MATTERS when we have confirmed emails of Zuckerberg going "...dumb fucks". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122 You get all kinds of excuses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38560321 Sounds good until you can't see any posts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 or they lock you out of your contacts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433 Some people are just malicious and should be avoided at all costs and if their feet were held to the fire early they would've never been allowed to take over people's lives in the way they have. It matters.