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		actuator on Jan 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset... I think the problem of going outside prevalent apps like Text/iMessage/WhatsApp is that not everyone will have the less prevalent ones. Few people have Telegram, Signal seems like a very niche tech/journalist thing.

vmception on Jan 4, 2021 [–]

Thats just informative for you.

I'm not really focusing on the dating use case and have already solved that for myself, and for you, and I'm not sure why you are overthinking it aside from your upcoming expensive of buying a new phone and additional cellular plan. The practicality is already there.

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