I understand it would be a pain for people with many contacts and that want to catalogue everything. I don't have many, less than 20 including family. I don't need to store so much info. l don't email. I don't send letters. Birthdays, I know the important ones. I'm PAYG and all the plans are pretty much the same so I don't hop networks, I top-up a tenner every 6 weeks.
It would be nice if people would at least have the option to do it 'the old fashioned way'. Being essentially forced to use cloud is what I find irritating. I was discussing this with someone last night. I have them all written down on paper, and with so few it's not an issue to input them again.
I get that it comes across as a bit tin foil hat and probably a bit hypocritical considering some of the services I use, but there is absolutely no advantage for me to allow Google that kind of information. Perhaps a bit farfetched, but I'm sure you'd all be pissed if your lives were intruded upon (although probably without you knowing) just because I had your number in cloud storage and I'd committed some horrific act of terrorism.
I understand that everything is probably too far gone for true privacy, too. I still want to at least attempt to limit what is shared. Every available option to 'increase functionality' or 'streamline the experience' is turned off, and it has had no impact on me whatsoever.
Confused wrote:There's so many advantages, that even the "OMG privacy" excuse for not doing so pales into insignificance.
So this, for me, is not applicable.