| He’s also just plain wrong about not being able to maintain connections with people who are left behind. a friend of mine lost his phone and was not able to recover his phonenumber. as a result he lost contact with hundreds of people and was not able to restore that contact to most of them. and that's not the first time i heard about that happening. in china supposedly relationships have been destroyed because someone lost their wechat access, and definitely friendships have been lost. this is my nightmare scenario. there are so many people i am in contact with through only one mode of communication, and if i were to lose that i would have no chance to ever get back to them. i don't even know how many people i lost when my email addresses stopped working. because i didn't just want to blast out a global notice to all my contacts. of course there the important ones i could inform about the new address but the less important ones are gone snd they have no way to find me. i am struggling to establish alternate contacts (like get the email addresses) of people to avoid that nightmare scenario for myself. so no, i don't think he is wrong about not being able to maintain connections with people who are left behind. maintaining connections across multiple modes of communication is extremely hard. |