Using your phone number as your chat ID is a bad idea

Our smartphones offer us many ways to communicate with each other. We can send SMS messages to one another. We can use Facebook to chat. Twitter lets us send direct messages back and form. Google’s Hangouts offers us similar functionalities. On iOS there’s iMessage. And let’s not forget Skype, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber, ChatOn, Kik, Snapchat, and who knows how many others.One could make the argument that there are simply too many ways with which we can communicate with one another. I wouldn’t argue against that. The bigger issues, however, are identification and ...

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