I've done that. They revert to traditional methods like phone calls when they want or need something. Every time.
Sucks to be you if your relationships, be they business or personal, are as fragile as a volatile technology.
Sucks to be you if your relationships, be they business or personal, are as fragile as a volatile technology.
Expecting your friends not to use cloud services seems a bit unreasonable and unenforceable. Are you really going to tell all your friends they should write down or memorize your phone number instead of storing it in their phone?
What we talk about isn't.
At some point privacy is no longer a choice, not a real choice anyway. You get to chose between participating in society or keeping your privacy. It shouldn't have to be this way, but it is.
Microsoft collects your friends' names so it can spell their names correctly when you use speech-to-text or related features. I thought that's what you were objecting to. What kind of data are you talking about?
Personally, I require that all my so-called friends communicate with me in morse code over short wave radio. It works a treat.