521
Contacts
(lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2025
521 points (100.0% liked)
Holup
1468 readers
393 users here now
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Or it's security conscious. You know who your wife, mom, dad, siblings etc. all are but if they're saved in your phone that way and someone gets access to your contacts it's easier to, potentially, phish them because you can manipulate the relationship.
Otherwise they're just a bunch of names that don't mean much to anyone but you or people that know you.
I think most people's conversation with their wife would indicate their relationship anyway. Probably a pointless differentiation.
Maybe, maybe not, but it could mean the difference between having your account emptied and not.
It's also not very good security keeping long text chains saved rather than periodically deleting and starting a new one with people you text private information too.
It's always going to be a compromise between security and ease of use, just a matter of where each person falls.