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It's worse than going backwards. A real rolodex never sent out your personal information. A primate home computer didn't send anything.

These contact lists kinda suck too. Back in the days when everyone used SMS and actually called each other with telephone numbers, they made sense, but now, everyone outside of North America uses various non-interoperable messaging/chat apps to communicate with their friends and family and the contacts don't integrate with these at all.

This is what the Solid protocol tries to fix. https://solidproject.org/