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>"If the average person was getting a hundred calls a day to the point where they couldn't use their phone service, something would happen."

This does seem to be the endgame. The last excuse I heard was "what if a friend of a friend wants to invite you to her party so she gets your number from the shared friend, and she also does the same for a bunch of other friends of friends?"




I'm not on it, but judging by the parties I've missed, everyone else uses facebook rather than the phone for this purpose.

This also seems problematic?


Do you ever wonder if Zuck has some kind of ghost profile for you anyway? This person that shows up in photos but has no profile...he probably knows your name and where you fit in the social graph.


He probably has numerous ghosts of me. I know that every time anything gets updated about a small business (phone number, address, principals, etc.) FB spins up a new ghost page for that business. They're not only bad at finding dupes, they're also bad at removing dupes once they've been notified of them.




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