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I saw that happen in a movie once.
Good user-interface design matters, people!
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it might also be a “dark pattern”. they absolutely want everyone’s contact information: there’s good ad dollars there in the social graph. the bad ui might well be part of the design
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This explains why I am getting spam emails addressed to “Old Man Neighbor”
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That would make me “Very tall trans neighbor with purple hair,” assuming they’re the more accepting neighbors. 
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I imagine (hope) my neighbors would have me stored as ‘vegetable guy’ or perhaps ‘beer guy’. Better that than ‘gruff-looking guy with all the Dandelions’
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Years ago a secretary sent out a department notification to all 60,000 employees by mistake. Trouble was, a bunch of recipients told her of the mistake by hitting “reply all” and it snowballed. It shut down the company email servers for several days.
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Oooh we hsd the same! Must have easily been 200 replies. Then a second wave a few days later when people who were out of office started replying.
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What I’m struck by is that Someone had 487 phone contacts.
I’d be struggling to hit 10% of that number, and that’s if I made everyone who has my number a contact.
I have a single contact with that many numbers.
Of course it’s one called “fucking spammers” for easy blocking when I move to a different phone.
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