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by candiodari 3008 days ago
I think at this point, given that both Android and IOS make giving apps access to your contact list easy, you are in fact in these sorts of graph databases in a couple dozen organizations by now, courtesy of people you know. Facebook is not going to be the worst of them by a looooooooooooooong shot.

Pokemon Go, Skype (now Microsoft), Whatsapp, Snapchat, Line & WeChat if you live in Asia, Path, Yelp, Twitter, ... all the bigger internet companies [1]

And sadly there's the really cheesy ones like "Fantasy War Tactics" [2]. How many of your friends play that sort of crap ?

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2012/02/14/iphone-address-book/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/42ok29/why_w...