One of them probably installed WhatsApp and added everyone in their contacts to WhatsApp.
When these companies are actively trying to trick their users, can you really blame the users?
When these companies are actively trying to trick their users, can you really blame the users?
edit: This is a lot like getting signed up for some multilevel marketing scam by a friend. They better be really sorry and you better reevaluate the spare key you gave that stupid person with low self control. Which you should have realized earlier.
Yes, it's entirely on the people who decided it's OK to share my data with FB.
That one plumber you called that one time, who added your number to their phone could have added everyone in their contact list to WhatsApp.
Maybe you did a favour for someone and helped out their cousin and you gave the cousin your number and never talked to them again.
Maybe you had a friend you lost touch with and their number changed but they kept their address book.
You told absolutely everyone? Are you sure? Absolutely everyone and stressed to them how important this was to them?
Worse, are these replies which completely lack empathy. Such a lack of imagination as to how your number could leak. And a tone as if no one has anything else going on in their lives or more important things to do.
Its something worth considering, seeing as it has been two days and unsurprisingly nobody could come up with an actual justification for such behavior.