Whatsapp / Viber contacts question
Hi, I've tried Googling this but quite honestly I can't find an answer that I can understand. I cannot work out who can see what.
A while back, I was talked into installing Whatsapp, but had a terrifying experience when I saw a whole bunch of long-forgotten contacts suddenly listed as potential Whatsapp contacts - and presumably all those people got to see my name pop up on their device too.
Not good. I have lots of old contacts in my phone: enemies, ex-girlfriends, ex-employers, ex-employees. I see no need to delete these contacts, in fact I would rather keep them in case I do ever need to contact them or so that I can identify the call if they ever try to contact me.
But the last thing I want is to suddenly pop up in front of their face, remind them of our past history or even give away that I still have them in my phone. I also don't know how it works if I (or they) have changed phone numbers in the meantime - do these apps somehow pass on a contact's name even if their number is totally new to the other party?
I'd love to find an iMessage alternative, but this kind of aggressive contact matching seems really ugly!
Hi, I've tried Googling this but quite honestly I can't find an answer that I can understand. I cannot work out who can see what.
A while back, I was talked into installing Whatsapp, but had a terrifying experience when I saw a whole bunch of long-forgotten contacts suddenly listed as potential Whatsapp contacts - and presumably all those people got to see my name pop up on their device too.
Not good. I have lots of old contacts in my phone: enemies, ex-girlfriends, ex-employers, ex-employees. I see no need to delete these contacts, in fact I would rather keep them in case I do ever need to contact them or so that I can identify the call if they ever try to contact me.
But the last thing I want is to suddenly pop up in front of their face, remind them of our past history or even give away that I still have them in my phone. I also don't know how it works if I (or they) have changed phone numbers in the meantime - do these apps somehow pass on a contact's name even if their number is totally new to the other party?
I'd love to find an iMessage alternative, but this kind of aggressive contact matching seems really ugly!
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